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In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction intersect in different ways, however all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the ignored image, the half-remembered location, the unstable border in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a peaceful but insistent meditation on how implying builds up in regular life.

Taken together, rendered in her distinct painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten minutes show how an ordinary life, when analyzed from a specific viewpoint, starts to radiate a palpable sense of significance.Rosemary Burn Bowl of cherries, 2025 Mona Sultan's photocollages explain the fragmentary nature of memory and significance, calling photographic fact into question by breaking down, recontextualising and repeating images. Balancing systematic accuracy with a distinctly human, necessarily imperfect visual sensibility, his paintings are lighthearted abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings offer physical types to images that we generally see by means of a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photos and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her distinct language hazy, distorted, discreetly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation inherent in a world filled with imagery that appears to appear and vanish ever-more rapidly. A shadow, a handstand, a large curtain draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he offers them a 2nd life in which they end up being irreversible. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a specific ahistorical quality; they link numerous histories of material experimentation and creation from worldwide within an unique visual language. They position the audience within landscapes that feel endless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Unfamiliar, these images are deeply peaceful, inviting you to revel in the easy pleasures of a constantly twilit, pastoral world.Llus-Carles Peric Cap a La Calma, 2014 The scenes that Bianca MacCall paints a train window reflecting the carriage's interior over the passing landscape; a barely-visible cars and truck concealed by an ochre-yellow drape appear intentionally mysterious. They make me think about the simultaneous absurdity and beauty of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unfamiliar lens. Bianca MacCall Continuous Movement, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In truth, if you stand in front of among his paintings for long enough, you may see it change in real time. The unclear, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep returning to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.