Ima Pico

Shape Shifters

Thu 23 April - Thu 25 June

Alison Richard Building

Abstraction is always an expression of trust in form. Where the world offers noise, excess or dispersal, abstract art knows how to condense the visible and invisible into structures, rhythms and relations that evoke rather than represent. Wassily Kandinsky affirmed that form is “the outward expression of an inner content”, and in that sense all abstraction becomes an exercise in translation: from thought to appearance, from emotion to colour, from intuition to space.

In this exhibition, abstraction is expressed in a female form – not from a biological or essentialist perspective, but as a plurality of voices that take the abstract to new depths. Five artists, five responsive geographies, interweave their work in a common fabric in which the geometric, the material, the visual, and the earthly come together to demonstrate that abstraction is not a genre closed off in the 20th century avant-garde, but is still a fertile territory, capable of continuing to challenge the viewer and their perceptions.

Artists: Cristina Ghetti, Ima Picó, Silvia Lerín, Lada Wilson, Sam Owen Hull

The exhibition extends over all four floors of the building, which are accessible via stairs or lift.

Join us for the exhibition private view on 23 April from 17:00 – 19:00, all welcome!

Cost: free