Galleries, Miami
Group Exhibition
Shadowboxing It: Painting Peripheries
Central FineLoriel Beltran, Corinne Bernard, Chemu Ng’ok, Tomm El-Saieh, Viktor El-Saieh, Blake Rayne, Constanza Schaffner, Diego Singh, Frantz Zephirin “Keep pushing me, Keep pushing me” [1] Over the borderline, the threshold redesigns itself conversationally. The gaze of a lion, with the eyes of a woman sporting contact lenses, encounters a solar storm where a man that looks like a sign, is busy cruising himself, in silence. Marks appear to rain over themselves, patterns travel, and a gathering of masked figures, move forward, in protest. Farmers with horns move around. They address the ground where abstraction and its signs, build a name. A new dictionary opens up as a scroll, flanked by an undulating frame and it is a game. Matter breaks free from the confines of a pregnant rectangle, and pigment appears to burst, into a million cuts. Presenting voices that come forward from various thresholds, a dynamic field is charged in a dialectical movement, so that the periphery is understood as plural, fluid, and self-framing, —racing towards an enucleating stop. The paintings presented, hang next to each other, in solidarity, and yet, aware of the clash. In the periphery, shadowboxing the sphinxes of interiority, the expansion is what it is. And the center, is that construction that keeps policing itself, incapable to contain. —Diego Singh, Miami Beach, November 2023 1 - “Borderline" is a song by American singer Madonna from her debut self-titled studio album (1983), written and produced by Reggie Lucas.