Claudia Keep 

Claudia Keep 

Waggle Dance 

Château La Coste in Aix-en-Provence is pleased to present a new exhibition of paintings by Claudia Keep. Following her inclusion in the 2024 group exhibition Chambre à soi, Keep returns to the Galerie Richard Rogers with a poignant new body of work. Conceived as records of an ever-changing world, the paintings in Waggle Dance are imbued with an acute awareness of the fragile timelines facing many species today. While her depictions of bees, flowers, and insects capture the luminous beauty of the present, their delicate nature points toward deeper ecological questions.

Drawing inspiration from the honeybee’s “waggle dance” — the rhythmic figure-eight movement used to share vital discoveries with the hive — Keep’s latest works portray insects at a larger-than-life scale. These are not merely scientific observations, but profound acts of witnessing: a visual tribute to the fragile balance that sustains our natural world.