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In this group of artists, intimacy, memory and abstraction converge in various ways, but all share a sensitivity to the fleeting: the overlooked image, the half-remembered place, the unstable boundary in between what we see and what we feel. Together, they form a quiet however insistent meditation on how suggesting collects in common life.

Taken together, rendered in her unique painterly design, these retellings of easily-forgotten moments show how a regular life, when analyzed from a particular 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 concern by breaking down, recontextualising and duplicating images. Stabilizing systematic accuracy with a distinctly human, necessarily imperfect visual perceptiveness, his paintings are easy going abstractions for the digital age.Luke Rudolf Fizzog 4, 2025 Jo Berry's airbrushed paintings offer physical types to images that we typically see via a screen andquickly forget, such as stock photographs and ReCAPTCHAs. To me, her unique language hazy, distorted, discreetly disturbing shows the alienation and dissociation intrinsic in a world filled with images that seems to appear and vanish ever-more quickly. A shadow, a handstand, a large drape draped over a houseplant: by photographing such things, he gives them a second life in which they become permanent. Emile Kees Handstand, 2023 Jo Hummel's minimalist abstractions have a certain ahistorical quality; they link multiple histories of product experimentation and production from around the world within a special visual language. They situate the audience within landscapes that feel limitless with a low mist hanging over the horizon. Though unknown, these images are deeply peaceful, inviting you to savor the easy enjoyments of a perpetually 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 automobile hidden by an ochre-yellow curtain seem deliberately strange. They make me think about the synchronised absurdity and beauty of the world in front of me, thinking about familiar scenes through an unknown lens. Bianca MacCall Perpetual Movement, 2023 Henry Ward's painting practice is ever-shifting. In reality, if you stand in front of one of his paintings for long enough, you might see it alter in genuine time. The unclear, unforeseeable nature of his work is what makes me keep going back to it.Henry Ward Bethany III, 2023.