Sumptuous wallpaper installations in conversation with Van Gogh's final works Published with
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. This catalog brings together works by Los Angeles-based
artist Laura Owens (born 1970) and seven paintings by Vincent van Gogh painted in the last
years of his life. Confined to her studio in Arles during the months of lockdown in 2020 Owens
immersed herself in the life and works of Van Gogh a process which left traces of his
sensibilities in the commissioned work that followed. Transforming the space of the Fondation
Vincent van Gogh in Arles Owens created a monumental wallpaper using various handcrafted and
digital techniques. The motifs of these rooms which draw a suspended universe between the
premodern and the contemporary are inspired by the works of the English designer Winifred How
and enter into a close dialogue with Van Gogh's paintings which are hung on the elaborately
adorned walls.
