VERONICA CHEANN

A Disquieting Landscape

15 January – 8 March 2026

In this exhibition, Cheann presents a body of work inspired by the enduring allure of Metaphysical art—an artistic pursuit that sought to reveal a reality beyond the physical by transforming the familiar into the mysterious and quietly unsettling. Drawing from a movement marked by illogical juxtapositions, stillness, and disorienting spatial constructions; she reinterprets these perceptions through jewelry, sculpture, and installation.

The Metaphysical painters of the early twentieth century created dreamlike interiors and uncanny urban vistas as they confronted a rapidly modernizing world and the erosion of classical ideals during the First World War. Cheann reflects on this moment of artistic and cultural upheaval, finding parallels in their challenge to agency and meaning that is also present in our time.

The jewelry, sculpture, and installation operate at the threshold between the intimate and the architectural. The rings—conceived as wearable sculptures—invite the wearer to use them as viewfinders, framing fragments of the surrounding environment. As such, they become instruments for looking, mediating perception and drawing the exterior world inward. By viewing landscapes through these objects, the wearer encounters a reframed reality in which the metaphysical subtly inflects the everyday. Through this interplay of scale, object, body, and environment, Veronica invites visitors to reconsider how perception shapes the terrain of experience.

Veronica Cheann (1976, Hong Kong), is based at Nesodden, Norway, and received her bachelor degree in material based art in KHIO. She has several solo exhibitions in Norway, and has taken part in Årsutstillingen and exhibition at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art. Cheanns work was acquired by Trondheim kommune in 2024. She has also exhibited in Germany during Munich Jewellery Week, Galerie Mazeel in the Netherlands, and Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibitions. Beside her art practice, Cheann is also a trained landscape designer and architect, and worked in these fields together for over 16 years.

The exhibition is supported by Arts Council Norway.