The Transcendence of Memory: Melinda Braathen, Ji Won Cha, Cheung Tsz Hin, Paul Lam, Anna Lugovska, H.E. Morris, Liz Stringer, Alixe Turner, Jiatong Yuan

Baert Gallery is pleased to inaugurate our new gallery location in Melrose Hill with a group exhibition, bringing together artists whose practices investigate the shifting relationships between body, memory, perception and landscape, all exploring the psychological throughline of these subjects. Working across a variety of media, The Transcendence of Memory presents approaches that create a dialogue between the physical and the imagined, the intimate and the expansive.
 
Each artist in the exhibition offers a distinct way of navigating the uncertainty of transformation. Atmospheric landscape and reimagined notions of the sublime lend to a deeper investigation of our place in the natural world. Personal reflections on both the corporeal and psychological aspects of the human form transcend the individual, touching on notions of collective memory and a porous relationship with the environments we inhabit.  

The investigation of consciousness and the body throughout these artists’ practices transcend space and time. References to ancient wars and the historical moment contrast with contemporary introspection and consideration for the physicality of the form, its individual history, and how that history has the potential to expand beyond a singular entity. Through sweeping, gestural brush strokes, energetic painted fields, and dimensional depictions of collective celebratory practices, this exhibition brings forth the concept that we are each enmeshed with a force larger than ourselves.