VisArts Exhibition - Gabriel Soto: Vision / Apparition

March 22–May 12, 2024
355 POD Space Gallery
The works included in this exhibition focus on “the miracle,” an event or object that breaks our notions of what is real, possible, or conceivable. These works explore hallucinations, magical energies, and visions as an aesthetic and conceptual framework. Growing up in a deeply Catholic country, and being interested in esotericism and the occult, Soto created these works as a search for a visual language that he could use to express his anxieties about the nature of reality, the state of the world, and the fate of the human spirit. The results are paintings of surreal structures and apparitions that present viewers with a vision of other realities and altered perceptions, much like the ones that Catholicism and Pagan magic revere with zeal and conviction.