Iris XIV Hanna

In the 1960s, Ulla Wiggen painted detailed yet enigmatic images of the insides of electronic devices. She portrayed circuit boards and computer elements in a time when few suspected the future importance of this technology. Even then, she was considering looking inside the human body, but that project was put on hold when Wiggen gave up art and started working as a psychotherapist. Wiggen did not return to painting and studies of the human body until the early 2010s. Her focus soon moved to the eye, particularly the iris and pupil, the boundary between the world outside and inside, both physically and mentally. With her precise paintings, Wiggen seeks to create order in the intangible inner life that goes on under the surface.