Looking Forward while Looking Back
With works by Leah Hewson, Tadasuke Jinno and Philippe Halaburda.
Curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen
October 23 - November 12, 2020
Virtual Exhibition
NARS Foundation is happy to present A Part of it All as a continuation of the Looking Forward while Looking Back series. This iteration is divided in two segments. In the second one we present the works of Philippe Halaburda, Elisabeth Smolarz and Denise Treizman.
Through the use of simple gestures related to actions, patterns, colors, structures, or even moments, this group of artists investigates the ways in which perception operates and responds. Just as time doesn't pass identically to everyone, looking at images/perception is not an identical experience. In this sense, the works in this two part exhibition explore cognitive stimulation and interactions with different fragments of the unconscious mind.
While exploring visual illusions and playing with perception to find the dividing point between what is real and what is not, these artists build a sensorial vocabulary –made of light, objects, patterns and colors– that serves as a path towards awareness, emphasizing that, over all, we´re not external observers but a part of it all.
About the artists:
Leah Hewson
Hewson is an Irish artist based in Dublin. Her work is continually searching for ways to access and explore the unconscious mind with the equal desire for excavation and escapism. An instinctive and impulsive approach to image making is adopted to find an abstract sensory vocabulary that activates and celebrates this area of brain activity. Hewson investigates the level of importance that pattern, colour and structure has to the human psyche and how it creates cognitive stimulation from an unconscious level.
Elisabeth Smolarz
The Encyclopedia of Things is a photography series in which I collaborate with individuals in their home environments. Each individual selects personal objects that are meaningful to them, which they arrange for the camera in a temporary installation. Whether memento or heirloom, everyone has their own talismans: objects containing a value only significant to its keeper.
The meaning of such objects gets assigned silently, internally, and yet, reveals so much about who we are. The objects are often portals that allow us to travel to key moments in our lives, and we keep them to create a sense of permanence against the impermanence of reality.
Denise Treizman
My sculpture and installation repurposes found and ready-made objects, often combined with clay components and woven elements that I intuitively create. Precariously assembled, the works are wild and wacky, yet in balance as they ride up a wall or come tumbling across the floor. My process embraces chance, explores relationships and relies on resourcefulness. I improvise and play, allowing objects and materials to surprise me with their infinite possible combinations. Discarded things that most people overlook, I instead make noticeable. Working on the street and the studio, I examine how worthless fragments and simple gestures can be transformed into unexpected art experiences.
Due to COVID regulations, attendance is limited for the opening reception.
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