GROUP EXHIBITION

But how do artists recognise the not only the importance of improbability, but foster this kind of high level receptivity? How do you find something by deliberately not seeking it out, knowing that this ineffable gesture is the most powerful kind of artistic expression? It requires an understanding of the laws that govern the universe, or as Einstein once said, ‘the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources, even from yourself,’ that is, to have faith that what we are seeking in the living world is also seeking us; to receive everything, all we need do is to be open to it.

This exhibition takes as its subject the nebulous, syncretic moment, celebrates the ambiguous gesture and expounds on the improbable instance where magical thinking occurs without our knowledge or awareness. For example, the paintings of Lenz Geerk investigate the strange and luminous distance between figures and objects, creating a force-field of psychologically charged spaces. Brenna Youngblood explores the boundaries between language and abstraction, investigating the nuances and complexities of words and how meanings can be subverted and reinterpreted, whereas Daniel Crews-Chubb employs a more traditional painterly approach, using language as both myth and symbol to represent ethnological concerns. Beyte Saar’s sculptural investigations continue to compel and surprise while raising important questions about identity and femininity.

All the artists in this exhibition are not only imaginative and curious about the world around them, but also bring to their work a level of inquisitiveness that supersedes cognition–instead, privileging instinct–and both a playfulness and a willingness to commit to the improbable and the ambiguous to allow life’s riddles to remain unsolved.