The title is borrowed from Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. The unfinished novel follows a group of explorer-philosophers who seek to discover Mount Analogue, a mythical mountain, a bridge between heaven and earth.
As much a state of being as a geographical location; the mountain is metaphorically significant and only reveals itself to those who search for it.
"Its summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique, and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible."
This exhibition groups works that treat nature allegorically, presenting the viewer with images that appear, at first glance, light and ethereal but, upon closer inspection, surprise with details that intrigue and unsettle. The suggestion being that a shift in focus - a reversal of perspective - can invite magical thinking.
This is an exhibition of peradams. A fictional object described in Daumal’s novel asa precious sphere that is hard as a diamond and transparent as air, visible only to those who seek it. The artworks bid the viewer to err on the mystical side suggesting: “the only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
