I Find You All Around Me brings together the practices of Driaan Claasen and Karla Nixon in an exhibition that considers the sublime not as transcendence beyond the self, but as a condition of intimate and destabilising proximity. Borrowing its title from a poem by the 12th-century Persian mystic Hakim Sanai, the exhibition reflects on forms of presence that evade fixed definition while continuing to structure perception, embodiment, and emotional experience.
The exhibition unfolds as a gradual movement from fragmentation toward immersion. While materially and formally distinct, both artists explore bodies under pressure: the psychological body and the elemental body; the internal landscape and the natural world. Together, their works suggest that certain presences cannot be fully perceived, as they are already embedded within and around us.
Throughout, the figure of “You” remains deliberately unresolved. It may refer to another person, the self, memory, grief, nature, divinity, or the unseen emotional states that define contemporary life. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, I Find You All Around Me proposes presence as relational and perpetually shifting — something perceived differently depending on one’s position, yet never fully separable from the act of looking itself.