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Viewing Your Mind is Now An Ocean at Pilar Corrias

This beautiful group show titled Your Mind is Now an Ocean at Pilar Corrias – including artists Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento – explores the ocean’s significance in art, as a subject and symbol signalling the sublime and the unconscious.

Immerse yourself in Keren Cytter’s short film Ocean (2014), where the show gets its title. As the characters lives seem to unravel, the ocean seems to offer comfort and solace. Elsewhere, works Manuel Mathieu explore paints watery interactions with the surface of the canvas, leading the artist to contemplate conceptual ideas about disappearing and the ephemeral, while Mary Marsden hints at the sea in oil paintings rendered with sparse marks.

We also love the episodic series of minimal, restrained line drawings Koo Jeong A made to record experiences, both literal and imagined, of swimming and walking within a landscape, fragments that evoke natural surroundings – craggy cliffs or jutting rocks – that also speak to the feeling of being alone and open to the elements. Your Mind is Now An Ocean offers an unexpected and poetic look at an subject with ancient roots in art, timely without being corny. Take a dip before it closes at the end of the week.

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Dates
31 July 2024 — 30 September 2024
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