The Door of Perception
Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka and is now based in Toronto. She paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons and powerful black heroines. They join the fight to reclaim their space in popular visual tropes, against antiquated power structures suppressing the untamed female sexuality. Other futures beg to unravel; body positive, inclusive and authentic.
The selection begins with her recent works evolving around diasporic travellers protected by magical vestments.
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.
Edward S. Curtis shows us an ancient way of life that is about to vanish. And after that the wisdom will be forever lost.
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
From detached gaze to initiatory knowledge: Verger is a true messenger between worlds.
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.
Goudal makes no attempt to hide any evidence of fabrication, drawing attention to the artificial, man-made aspect of photography
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
