LOYAL is pleased to present Garden, Zoé Blue M.’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Welcome to the opening reception with the artist Thursday, August 20, 5–7 pm

LOYAL Chapel, Lund, Sweden

Zoé Blue M.’s practice explores memory, cultural hybridity, historical narrative, and the complexities of identity through vivid, immersive visual worlds. Drawing from her French, Japanese and West Coast American heritage, her paintings bring together references ranging from ukiyo-e prints and Noh theater to anime, manga, and contemporary popular culture, while examining the psychological and emotional dimensions of femininity, adolescence, and family history.

In Garden, relationships remain central. Figures move through worlds that seem to be continually shifting around them. They run, swing, take aim, look back, and hold onto one another. Birds cross overhead, water ripples beneath their feet, foliage creeps into the edges of the frame, while mirrors and openings offer partial views into spaces beyond. Intimacy and play persist throughout, alongside a sense of uncertainty and unsettlement.

Zoé Blue M. (b. 1994, Toulon, France) is a Japanese-American artist raised in Los Angeles, where she lives and works. She received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2023 and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. She has presented solo exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch (New York), LOYAL (Stockholm), Page NYC (New York), Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), Gallery @ El Centro (Los Angeles), and In Lieu (Los Angeles), among others.