Presence as a Pause: Interiority and Its Radical Immanence With Celeste Rapone Presence as a Pause: Interiority and Its Radical Immanence With Celeste Rapone
May 20—September 17, 2023
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha

Presence as a Pause: Interiority and Its Radical Immanence With Celeste Rapone

Exhibition view: Celeste Rapone, Presence as a Pause: Interiority and Its Radical Immanence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, 2023. Photo © Colin Conces

Press Release

Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence focuses on the complexity of our everyday relationships through portraits and domestic scenes that examine personhood, memories, and the speeding up and slowing down of contemporary life. Artists are often known to be solitary creatures and their practice dictates long periods spent alone with their materials, thoughts and research, memories, and futures. Harmonizing these aspects together through painting, this exhibition highlights a group of artists who examine and celebrate ideas around interiority through their unique viewpoints, whether by means of domestic spaces filled with memories, inner monologues that flit between past, present, and future, or the visual expression of emotion. What happens when the space of the canvas allows for both subtle and radical interpretations of reality?

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