The juxtaposition of opposing elements - male and female, light and shadow, full and empty, sacred and profane - is a constant in Stefanie Popp’s work.

Even the titles of her works and exhibitions are language games that combine real words with neologisms of ambiguous meaning and evoke conflicting concepts.

In this case, the title brings together an exhibition of cats, a philosophy of the obelisk - and Obelix? (who in fact carries a menhir) - accompanied by a mineral enthusiasm and the taste of orange peel (another meaning of zest).

One is welcomed by the Ambassadors, two concrete sculptures, which stand guard like imposing prehistoric monoliths, but at the same time have funny cartoonish feline faces.

In the paintings on display, almost all of which were created in the last year, we find cats, phallic and totemic forms, snakes, but also fish and strange female figures in leopard-print bikinis. 

The tension and union between two opposites seem to find their materialization, within the paintings on display, in objects that stretch and connect, such as ties, ropes, snakes and abstract wormlike shapes that surround the various figures and parts of the paintings.

The subjects stand out hieratically within landscapes with moons and planets and merge with them, one giving shape to the other in an apparently illogical continuum that seems to represent a balance between the different elements of nature.