In Full Bloom begins with the fragile instant: the moment when identity is not yet fixed, when a person exists between who they are and who they are becoming. Bringing together the work of Peter Knapp, Bruno Suter, and Etienne Quesnay, the exhibition explores how presence, movement, and selfhood are captured across photography and painting. It asks a simple yet profound question: how does a person become fully and openly itself?

Photography and painting rarely inhabit the same space while making the same argument. Here, they meet to propose that the most truthful image of a person is often the one created before they have had time to compose themselves. In Full Bloom is not a retrospective of careers, but a conversation about becoming.

For decades, Peter Knapp pursued this question through the camera. A visionary photographer, graphic designer, and art director, Knapp transformed the language of fashion imagery during his influential years at ELLE, where he introduced a new sense of freedom, movement, and modernity into the visual culture of the 1960s and beyond. His photographs rejected the rigidity of the traditional fashion pose. Instead, he captured women in states of transition: a body mid-step, a face between expressions. Knapp's practice revealed fashion not as a fixed image, but as a space of liberation, spontaneity, and transformation. Bruno Suter follows a parallel pursuit through a radically different medium. Working across different mediums, Suter has developed a practice rooted in rhythm and the emotional power of colour. His background as an artistic director, including the creation of the agency Eldorado and his work across major visual campaigns, shaped his understanding of the image as an autonomous language. In his paintings, lines become traces, forms become flowers. Extending this dialogue, works by Etienne Quesnay introduces another dimension to this reflection. While Knapp and Suter reveal the self in the instant before it takes shape, Quesnay explores what follows: the complex relationship between the self we present and the self we carry within. Known for his deeply introspective practice, Quesnay creates psychologically charged images where figures, identities and emotions appear in states of transformation. His work examines the fractures, mysteries, and contradictions of being human. In the exhibition, his presence becomes a reminder that the self we show and the self underneath are never completely separate.

For curator Rylé Tuvierra, In Full Bloom continues a question that has shaped her entire practice: "What drew me to In Full Bloom is the same question I keep coming back to in everything I do: how does a person, or a moment in time, become fully and openly itself? The artists were both asking some version of that question across six decades, through fashion photography and through painting, and I wanted to bring their work into the room I'm standing in now, to see what it still has to tell us." A Filipino curator, creative director, writer, and founder of The Fierce Walker Lab, Rylé Tuvierra is internationally recognised for her work at the intersection of culture, fashion and sustainability. Her collaborations with leading institutions and houses, alongside her recognition as a Vogue Business Champion for Change, reflect her ongoing commitment to reshaping who is seen, celebrated, and included within creative industries.

Through In Full Bloom, Oana Ivan Gallery together with Tuvierra bring together six decades of visual culture through a contemporary lens, connecting photography, painting, fashion, and identity into one evolving conversation. The exhibition becomes a space of renewal: a place where images breathe, bodies move, and identities continue to unfold.

Peter Knapp

The renowned fashion photographer and art director Peter Knapp is one of the defining visual figures of the twentieth century. His revolutionary approach to fashion photography reshaped the image of modern womanhood, introducing movement, abstraction, and freedom into editorial photography. During his influential years as artistic director of ELLE, Knapp transformed the magazine into a laboratory of visual innovation, collaborating with photographers, designers, and artists to redefine the relationship between fashion and image. His work has been exhibited internationally and remains celebrated for its radical elegance, graphic precision, and humanistic approach.

Bruno Suter

Based in Switzerland, Bruno Suter has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and visual communication. Trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Lucerne, Suter later worked in Paris as an artistic director for major creative institutions and founded the agency Eldorado. His visual language is defined by colour, spontaneity, and the expressive power of gesture. His works have been presented at major international fairs including Art Basel and Art Paris and are held in private collections across Europe.

Etienne Quesnay

Etienne Quesnay's practice explores identity, memory, and the complexity of human experience. Over the past decade, he has developed a distinctive visual language where figures emerge between reality and dream. Moving away from fixed outlines and symbolic certainty, his recent paintings embrace ambiguity, vulnerability, and emotional tension. His work has been exhibited internationally and presented at institutions including Palais de Tokyo.