IONE & MANN is delighted to present in spirit and truth [come closer and see], an exhibition that explores opposing tensions inherent in balance within humankind’s fragile entanglement with the natural world.

Referencing non-duality, folklore and the unseen, the show brings together the practices of eight international artists who negotiate these tensions through a shared connection with the elemental, within an intentional, precise, often self-referential structure set free by an openness to what is unknowable.

Through painting, drawing, sculpture and textiles the works in the this exhibition offer a visual interplay between definition and soft focus, structure and freedom, symmetry and discordance, order and apparent chance. The figure is notably absent but humanity feels ever present - through an implied quest for its origins, its place and a deep yearning for connection through ritual and belief but also defiance, the need to assign meaning and also to reject it.

Heraclitus mentions the term palíntropos harmonîe which implies a dynamic unity of opposites, a relational whole that arises precisely because of its elements and the continuous shifts and adjustments that exist in a state of perpetual entanglement.

Today, in a hyper-accelerated, post-truth environment marked by extreme polarisation, pervasive uncertainty, and ecological precarity, the exhibition casts light on the emergence of countertendencies to bring things back to balance: softness in response to aggression; simplicity in response to excess; restraint in response to the drive for insatiable growth; introspection in response to constant connectivity; but also a willingness to seek understanding beyond human intelligence, learn from the natural cycles and access alternative forms of wisdom and consciousness.

This is not a proposal for escapism through distraction, detachment or reactionary nostalgia. At time where finding an anchor and grounding feels imperative, the exhibition posits a path forward through acceptance of opposites and the dynamic process of change which is essential for sameness to exist. 

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Please join us for the

OPENING RECEPTION

Tuesday 14 October 6-8 pm

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