Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere

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Pi Artworks is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition curated by Mustafa Hulusi, bringing together eighteen multi-generational and multi-national mix of artists. Each artist takes up a cosmo-antropic task to unreveal the mystical and hidden tradition of magical thinking, sinking into oblivion day after day within the perimeters of our late capitalistic culture satiated with techno-science and functionality. 

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 Wathan - James Huggett are participating in this exhibition to lift the veils of magical thinking and creativity. 

Together, they explore 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.

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. 

Private view of the show is on 1September 2022 between 6-8pm.

‘Everywhere was nowhere, and nowhere everywhere’ will run from 1 to 17 September 2022 at Pi Artworks London, Tuesday - Saturday 12-6 pm, Monday by appointment.