What exactly can be defined as a painting and what kinds of unorthodox elements can be used to create it? How about using one’s daughter’s favorite Disney character, financial destitution, one’s personal taste in interior design, a letter from the job centre, or even a topical pandemic to power non-figurative painting?

Ribe involves these external effects as concrete material and content in his works, which he often refers to as ‘interior painting’. Elements from the domestic sphere, in particular, and the common activities, ordinary objects, and socio-economic realities, prevalent in all homes, inspire Ribe. With all its banal practicalities, this everyday life appears in stark contrast to the exalted abstract painting and it is this friction that Ribe wants to activate.