"Ponies in the Forest" draws viewers into a richly saturated woodland encounter where an elderly figure, a deer, and two ponies converge amid lush, teeming flora. Woven in cotton and wool, the work exemplifies Christina Forrer's command of bold color and cartoonish figuration, a formal language that holds apparent naivety in deliberate tension with something far more unsettling beneath the surface. The composition belongs to a broader practice rooted in fable and folklore, traditions that have historically allowed artists to articulate private fears and collective anxieties through the guise of seemingly innocent imagery. Here, the forest setting functions as a classic allegorical stage, one where the boundaries between the benign and the ominous remain productively blurred. Forrer, born in Zürich in 1978 and based in Los Angeles, has built a critically recognized body of work that navigates the charged territory between humor and dread. Her weavings have entered the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, among others. Solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum and Luhring Augustine in New York, alongside inclusion in the Hammer Museum's celebrated "Made in L.A. 2020," have further cemented her standing as one of the most distinctive voices working in textile today. Offered through the Swiss Institute Benefit Auction, this 2022 work measures 69.9 by 86.4 centimeters and represents an exceptional opportunity to acquire a painting from a pivotal moment in a rapidly ascending career.