Chelsea, New York
Group Exhibition
Salon
SilverlensCatalina Africa, Emily Cheng, Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Gregory Halili, Mit Jai Inn, Pow Martinez, Wawi Navarroza, Etsuko Nakatsuji, Bernardo Pacquing, Carina Santos, Carlos Villa, Yee I-Lann There is a particular pleasure in rooms where too much is happening. A painting hangs beside a woven mat. A butterfly rests on a capiz shell. A photograph is wrapped in gingham. Nothing quite matches, yet everything seems to belong. Such spaces resist tidy classification, asking us to navigate by instinct rather than hierarchy. Salon takes its title from both the salon-style hang and the domestic interior: two modes of display built on proximity, accumulation, and personal taste. Bringing together works by artists who transform familiar materials and everyday forms, the exhibition considers what happens when distinctions between art and decoration, utility and ornament, begin to dissolve.