JOSHUA CARDOSO

In his drawings, Cardoso has created a formal language, in which letters, numbers, and glyphs swarm and cluster in frenzied movements, finite but unfixed. The accumulation of tiny marks creates a highly seductive microscopic or cosmic myriad as observed through the apparatusof science or a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The seemingly intangible forms evoke both a scientistic knowledge of nature and a personal confrontation with the sublime.

The artist takes perception itself as his subject, exploring it through multiple points of departure and media. Contrasting the cosmic point of view in the drawings, the sculptures – made of plywood and plexiglass for this exhibition – monumentalize such concepts as the fourcardinal directions or the bi-cameral brain. His perspective reflects elements of biological psychology, the new physics, the post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as the symbols and cosmologies of different mystical traditions.