Imago Ignota: Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Sebastián Hidalgo, Dominique Knowles, Tornike Robaqidze

These ‘unknown images’ create their own kind of reality and express the spiritual need of particular individuals to live within this created reality. They symbolize, in sum, the unknown, the antecedents and the aftermath of man, or that which surrounds him and which his senses and his intelligence are incapable of apprehending or appropriating. - Excerpt from J.E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols

 The four artists presented in the exhibition expand upon the notion of imago ignota, or the unknown image, as history has left plenty of strange matter ripe for probing. Each of their practices is contingent upon untangling skeins in order to offer new forms of knowledge. The primordial soup from which these artists generate energies requires something of a balancing act, thus calling for the diligence and care of these polymaths. - Text by Reilly Davidson