The new group show at Artyli – Whispers in Matter – is a reminder that art is about feeling. All our senses are triggered. Touch meets sight … smell meets sound. The sum of our truth is the sum of our senses. Even the mind, mistakenly considered to be Reason’s chapel, is a sensory and intuitive organ. It is not the ‘Empire of Signs’ that matters but the Emporia of the Senses.
The seven talented artists on exhibition explore their unique themes through material and process. Creating art through process, where process itself becomes content, where the previous brushstroke informs the next brushstroke, where the material itself in the hands of the artist transforms into something new and unique.
It is
unsurprising that the curatorial vision veers towards abstraction, and finds
the figurative inside of it. This is because abstraction, or art more
generally, is not as objectifiable as we would like to think. Rather, art
‘exists in the interstices between the ideal and the real’, between projection
and sensation. This is because, above all else, it is a sensuous expression, no
matter how chilling, how warm. What one connects with when one listens, tracks,
navigates, or inhabits an artwork is ourselves. Art is elemental, it is earth,
water, sky. It is we who become a divining rod.
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