Atmospheres
Upcoming exhibition
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NAVA Contemporary is pleased to present, Atmospheres, a group exhibition exploring the evocative power of mood. Featuring paintings, photography, and works on paper by Miguel Arzabe, David Burdeny, Daniel Diaz-Tai, Firouz FarmanFarmaian, James Gilroy, and Vanessa Kocking, the exhibition brings together works that are atmospheric, introspective, and subtly charged, inviting viewers to consider how an artwork can communicate through feeling as much as through form or subject.In Atmospheres, mood becomes a language of its own. Across distinct practices and mediums, the artists create works that evoke states of solitude, melancholy, tension, and restless contemplation. In Arzabe’s abstract expressionist painting Green Smear, layered surfaces and shifting colors carry an emotional charge that feels both visceral and conceptual. FarmanFarmaian and Gilroy similarly approach abstraction through gesture, material, and movement, creating compositions that hover between tension and stillness in Hybrid IV and Stormy, respectively.Elsewhere in the exhibition, Kocking’s Journey conjures a feeling at once familiar and elusive, its fragmented forms suggesting something just beyond reach, like a map we cannot read. Burdeny’s photographs, including Five Icebergs, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, transform expansive landscapes and architectural spaces into scenes of striking solitude, where scale and silence become emotional forces in themselves. Keever approaches atmosphere through a more constructed form of photography, as in Abstract 54575,where otherworldly scenes are created by releasing clouds of paint into water and capturing their shifting forms. On paper, Diaz-Tai introduces another register of mark, texture, and suggestion. In Asemic N523.15, fragmented forms emerge through an enigmatic language, allowing emotion to take shape without a fixed narrative.Together, the works in Atmospheres demonstrate how formal choices like shadow, color and space can alter our perception of an image and create an emotional charge. Rather than directing the viewer toward a singular interpretation, the exhibition invites a more intuitive encounter: to notice what a work stirs within us and allow feeling to become the experience itself.
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