Portals to Unwritten Time
At the invitation of Perrotin Paris, Barbara Newman curated a group exhibition showcasing the work of thirteen artists. Portals to Unwritten Time is inspired by painter Hilma af Klint鈥檚 belief that art can serve as a threshold through which we move across time.
Portals to Unwritten Time begins with the premise that art can serve as a threshold across time. The works in the exhibition open new portals鈥攖oward spirit, memory, myth, and philosophical knowledge.
The participating artists do not only look ahead; they move sideways through history, delve into the body, and project outward toward the unknown.
A guiding inspiration for this journey is Hilma af Klint. For her, time did not flow in a straight line but spiraled鈥攎ystically, symbolically, through unseen realms. She envisioned her paintings as tools, diagrams, and portals鈥攕tructures meant to speak one day to a more receptive future.
The portal, in this context, is both metaphor and method. It is a visual and conceptual threshold鈥攁 symbolic opening through which new forms of knowledge may emerge. That knowledge is nonlinear, embodied, and often poetic鈥攂orn of intuition, memory, and the invisible.
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At the invitation of Perrotin Paris, Barbara Newman curated a group exhibition showcasing the work of thirteen artists. Portals to Unwritten Time is inspired by painter Hilma af Klint鈥檚 belief that art can serve as a threshold through which we move across time.
Portals to Unwritten Time begins with the premise that art can serve as a threshold across time. The works in the exhibition open new portals鈥攖oward spirit, memory, myth, and philosophical knowledge.
The participating artists do not only look ahead; they move sideways through history, delve into the body, and project outward toward the unknown.
A guiding inspiration for this journey is Hilma af Klint. For her, time did not flow in a straight line but spiraled鈥攎ystically, symbolically, through unseen realms. She envisioned her paintings as tools, diagrams, and portals鈥攕tructures meant to speak one day to a more receptive future.
The portal, in this context, is both metaphor and method. It is a visual and conceptual threshold鈥攁 symbolic opening through which new forms of knowledge may emerge. That knowledge is nonlinear, embodied, and often poetic鈥攂orn of intuition, memory, and the invisible.
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Portals to Unwritten Time begins with the premise that art can serve as a threshold across time. The works in the exhibition open new portals鈥攖oward spirit, memory, myth, and philosophical knowledge.
