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Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere

1 Sep-17 Sep 2022
PV 1 Sep 2022, 6-8pm

Pi Artworks

London W1W 8EG

Overview

Pi artworks is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition curated by Mustafa Hulusi ‘Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere’, a group exhibition that sits within a territory where we are faced with the human need to connect with a sense of the cosmic.

‘Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere’, brings together the works of eighteen multi-generational artist, exploring the sensory experience outside of language to defy the narrowing horizon of thought in the face of ever looming idea of functionality of techno-science prevailing over imagination. Following the Italian philosopher Federico Campagna’s ideas of ‘Technic’ and ‘Magic’, the exhibition offers to create a dialogue between two opposing yet not utterly incompatible polars, constituting and shaping the definition of what we call reality while guiding the visitors into intangible realms of being.

Monir Farmanfarmaian - Gaia Fugazza - Dee Ferris - Deborah Hobson - Ximena Garrido-Lecca - Maude Maris - Tanoa Sasraku - Gulay Semercioglu - Maryam Eisler - Salvatore Arancio - John Greenwood - GT Pellizi - Peter Peri - Polys Peslikas - Jamie Shovlin - Ben Spiers - Richard Wathen - James Huggett are participating in this exhibition to lift the veils of magical thinking and creativity.

Mustafa Hulusi states this show as "an invitation to the viewer as a playful rewriting of visual codes, from mystical hard-edged abstraction to trippy figuration, or from innovative assemblage to compellingly beautiful affective hand-crafted works. It is possible that the ineffable can illuminate - that liberation, and elation can be found by attuning to our cosmic origins and recalibrating our focus to our ultimate celestial destination."

This preternatural encounter brings the distinctive approach of each artist to light, in our search for a way to liberate our stream of consciousness from the tightening net of functionalism. Magical thinking is believed to deliver a creative way for us to navigate through our intertwined cosmic and anthropic journey.