MIRRORS - SOLO SHOW — Galería Reus | Contemporary Art Galleries in Palma, Mallorca

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MIRRORS - SOLO SHOW

Adam Beris

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15/09/2022 – 01/11/2022

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Mirrors is the first Adam Beris's solo show at Galeria Fran Reus, formed by a series of paintings created by applying paint directly from the tube onto the canvas. Inspired by slot machine imagery and an overabundance of old and "expiring" paint, each painting is built using an ambiguous codex of symbols, shapes, characters, food, ideas, and abstractions. Inserted at the painter's eye level are a pair of caricatureized eyeba ls; as if it were a reflection of the viewer attempting to construct a narrative and/or decipher the imagery in front of them. However, the paintings are not created with any specific narrative in mind -- the symbols are assembled based on aesthetic decisions, leaving the viewers to discover and create associations between shape and object. Within these grids, the viewers construct their own meanings, fictions, and anecdotes.

The narrative sense involves an active implication of the spectator within the painting itself, which moves away from its pictorial and material nature to become a mirror in which the spectator does not observe a faithful representation of his anatomy, but a reflection of his own subjectivity, of his life and of the way in which he himself becomes the observer of his world. In this sense, the relationships between the different elements created from the accumulation of paint generate meanings and mutate depending on who is positioned in front of the different canvases that formed the exhibition.

The paintings presented are generated as hieroglyphic and, therefore, from the simplicity of the elements included. A quick glance leads, a priori, to indecipherable combinations with the titles as the only clues: a bay, edibles, song titles, a lawn, a drug dealer, or a city in California. Starting from these sma l indications, if we concretize our gaze, we begin to find paths through which to travel within our own subjectivity, leading to an exchange between our eyes and those who find them recreated in the painting. The simplicity of the elements is synonymous, in Beris's work, with narrative, not predetermined, but generated from individual introspection

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