Luis Adelantado Valencia is pleased to invite you to the opening of the group exhibition A Certain State of Mind, which will bring together a series of contemporary artists who will invite us to reflect on the idea of perception and the multiple readings that its alteration can offer.
This co-curated by Solene Guillier (gb agency) and Olga Adelantado, brings together artists with a remarkable international trajectory. This visual trap is conceptualised from the vision of the following artists; Ting-Ting Cheng, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Rubén Guerrero, Roman Ondák and the recently incorporated to the Valencian gallery Yann Sérandour.
The exhibition will show pieces in different media, we will see installation, photography, light and irony. It is true that in the right doses, irony is part of perception, of its nuances and of the complex and everyday ideas that materialise in conceptual works. We will find a certain serene transgression, blurred limits that are completed with the viewer’s gaze.
We will be able to see the most recent works by Taiwanese artist Ting-Ting Cheng, who has been an artist at the gallery since 2013. Her series of photographs You See What I See invites us to reflect on the control of information. Subtlety does not hide reality, the power of the word to direct our ideas and, therefore, our attitude. His work is in line with the proposal of the consolidated French artist Mark Geffriaud, who proposes an editorial material that, in turn, was never conceived for distribution. An edition that becomes the art object dreamed of by the artist.
Yann Sérandour’s work is meticulous and to a certain extent close to historiography. His work for the show interrogates us and returns a reflection whose limits are indefinite. His installation Untitled is connected to an essay on the conceptual artist Daniel Buren.
In a kind of trompe l’oeil that appeals to our intellect, the installation by Slovak artist Roman Ondák generates a fictitious conversation with the director of the gallery, in a unique piece. Linked to this ironic idea of a visual trap, the work of the well-known artist Ryan Gander will be shown for the first time in Valencia. His process of artistic experimentation seeks to recompose space from dislocated materials (a suspended fibreglass balloon, lamps designed with everyday objects, an alchemy box…). Along these lines, the artist from the Rubén Guerrero gallery advances in his research into the limits of painting in the 21st century, and presents three canvases in which he vindicates the gesture of the ephemeral as part of painting.