Exhibitions
The Restless Surge of the Liquid State is a solo exhibition by Karen David which reimagines the gallery as an active laboratory of signs and signifiers, combining fictions, autobiography and material facts. The exhibition takes its name from a chapter in the 1969 Time-Life pocketbook on Matter, where it speaks of the mutable nature of liquid, being the ‘middle child’ of solids and gases. In this exhibition this in-between, transitionary, fluid nature of liquidity is present in the modes of display where process, presentation and studio borders merge, and fiction, autobiography and art-making temporarily occupy the same space, merging and swirling and surging restlessly as one shared enquiry.
The works on display occupy this liquid state where we witness, albeit frozen in time, pigment swirling together restlessly, as they reach upwards resembling patisserie, seashells, psychedelia and cellular nodes all at once. These works act as material facts amongst a tapestry of fictions and personal narratives, immiscible with each other.