Spaces of Perception
From 12.09.2025 to 20.09.2025
Two day Vernissage during Open Studios:
Friday, September 12th | 18:00 – 21:00
Saturday, September 13th | 15:00 – 21:00
General Opening Times:
Tuesday to Saturday | 14:00 – 18:00
closed on Sundays and Mondays
Curator Walk Through & Artist Talk:
Wednesday, September 17th | 18:30 – 19:30
Spaces are where we retreat, construct, and open up our personal worlds. Between self and space, or lack thereof, the internal and external meet. Spaces of Perception asks how these exterior and interior states – imagined, isolated, or shared – shape our understanding of self, belonging and purpose. Internal dialogues, shaped through formative memories, are navigated through rituals and expressed through habits, unique to each soul’s essence.
Through each room of the exhibition, perceptions of comfort and vulnerability converge and interact. The exhibition begins with works that depict the “dream life”, where anxieties and desires echo through the subconscious and are nurtured in both private and public spaces. Giulia Gr’s photographs and gwen charles’ video work are meditations on physical sleep, where the body is simultaneously most vulnerable and able to transcend worlds. Suzanne Levesque’s paintings incorporate intricately handsewn textiles, as if to piece together elements of the conscious and the subconscious mind. Jonathan Esperester’s surrealist interiors balance intricate details with faded memories. In his painting “FEH”, the viewer may have just entered a lucid dream: a leopard coat – an item from a childhood memory for Esperester – floats without a hanger next to a nondescript clock.
As the exhibition concludes, Arbnor Karaliti’s paintings fill the final space with portrayals of human interaction and co-existence. In “Long time no see”, there is a comfort inherent within this exact co-existence, yet still a potential discomfort —two people, instead of interacting with each other, gaze coldly out at the viewer and pose, as if you have just entered their space without permission. After breaking away from one’s life in solitude, where reflection and daydreaming are more valued, one is forced to reconsider how space can be either tainted or influenced by the presence of another.
