Unit London's latest group exhibition guides viewers through an immersive experience that connects form and space. In Worlds Beyond, abstraction provides the means to explore medium as painting and textiles come together to interweave organic, mineral and corporeal elements. Coiled and fluid shapes evoke inner and outer worlds that respond to and interact with the confines of each canvas. In a series of artworks that take inspiration from both immediate surroundings and the mental landscape, flowing forms extend beyond frames to stray beyond boundaries and seep into the outside world.

Worlds Beyond presents a group of artists experimenting with abstraction through their use of material, drawing on subject matter that evokes both the concrete and physical as well as the more unconscious and intangible aspects of experience. Artists such as Alison Reimus use household items and found textiles to create familiar yet otherworldly spaces, bridging the gap between the real and imagined worlds. Amy Hui Li explores the body through her abstract visual language; her cellular forms evoke veins and blood vessels. Complex and futuristic assemblies of colour in the works of Ce Jian explore the boundaries between human and non-human worlds, while Fu Site uses shadow and reflection to layer mystery into his artworks. In a similar vein, Alba Botines' abstract canvases are filled with fluid forms that reflect the ever-changing nature of our relationship to the world around us.

Worlds Beyond therefore presents a group of artists using abstraction to visualise both the physical and mental aspects of human experience. Abstract forms lead the way to notions of memory, identity, relationships and our own bodies. Colour, line and pattern interact to produce varying degrees of tension and sensation. Straddling a threshold between our world and another, shapes overlap and interlock across the surface of a canvas or the weave of a thread, creating numerous configurations that allow us to reflect on the movement of the world around us.

Press release courtesy Unit.