GROUP EXHIBITION

Drawing inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s_A Treatise on Painting_ (c.1492–1508), and taking its title from Ada Limón’s poem, ‘In The Shadow’, this presentation looks at the phenomenon of pareidolia – the tendency to perceive patterns and forms in unlikely places – as a valuable artistic device which enables imagination to rule over perception.In his collection of writings, da Vinci advised his disciples to look carefully at their surroundings and at nature, in order to discover imagery such as mountainous landscapes, battle scenes, costumes and faces. Through the contemplation of clouds, stains on a wall or even ashes from a fire, he promised, one could find an infinite number of wondrous things. In images that strive to ‘see beyond’ and by willingly unravelling fixed vision, landscape and abstraction can lead to the fantastical.Artists: Jamiu Agboke, Alia Ahmad, Mona Hatoum, Mary Herbert, Tomas Leth.