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Mercer Labs is set to unveil a new immersive exhibition just in time for Halloween. Conceptualized by co-founder and multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, Dark Matter invites audiences into nightmarish dreamscapes, fusing together elements of psychic darkness with paranormal expression.Housed at Mercer Labs’ 36,000 square foot base in downtown Manhattan, the exhibition will feature a series of 15 unique rooms. In a maelstrom of robots, 4D soundscapes, dynamic projections and infinity rooms, Dark Matter creates an experience that is just as entrancing as it is eerie.“Dark Matter examines the role of darkness in art history,” says Nachum in an exhibition statement. “Revealing how the subconscious uncertainty and the unknown has shaped artistic movements across time. The exhibition is a mirror...

After only one day of opening, Cj Hendry’s massive floral installation was quickly shut down due to overcrowding, finding home in an Industry City warehouse for its final viewing day.Two years in the making, Flower Market was originally installed at FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, presented in collaboration with Clé de Peau Beauté and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. Slated to stay from September 13 through 15, the immersive exhibition was shut down by the New York Police Department in the first hour of opening on September 14 after the park reached capacity. The artist took to social media, apologizing to visitors that weren’t able to make it in, promising to “build a new exhibit overnight” via Instagram later that day.With quick feet, Hendry and her team found an ope...

Europa presents a solo exhibition by Thomas McDonell featuring a new suite of paintings and sculptures. For Figueroa St. Paintings, the actor-turned-artist widens a curious eye toward an ever-changing Los Angeles, finding creative life in utilitarian materials.For McDonell, the pleasure is in the pragmatic. Traces of scratching fingernails on the surface of the canvas suggest a clash between the artist and his work, as confident gestures and handprints are held together in thick layers of discarded industrial house paint.Painting and sculpture bleed into one another through the artist’s textural approach. In the center of the gallery lay ceramic pieces, adorned in calligraphic grooves and a rich inky glaze. The supporting pedestals are crafted out of newspaper rolls, sourced from the Los A...

Perrotin New York presents Between, an immersive dive into the world of Lee Bae, a South Korean artist known for pushing the boundaries of minimalism. Bae’s work has recently been seen on a colossal scale at Rockefeller Center and in the Venice Biennale. This time, at Perrotin, he showcases a site-specific installation featuring paper painted with charcoal ink and bronze sculptures. The pieces explore the intersection of cultural history and the present moment, with bold shapes capturing fragments of time.For over four decades, Bae has honed his craft around the color black, primarily using charcoal. To him, charcoal represents the cycle of life, renewal, and history. He’s evolved from raw charcoal sculptures to experimenting with charcoal ink and bronze in recent years. His "Brushstroke" ...

Ahead of their annual residency program, THE SHOPHOUSE has announced a duet exhibition by artists Jinbin Chen and Yu Shuk Pui Bobby. The two will come together to showcase a series of original on-site works following the open studio period.Since its inauguration in 2021, the DOOR TO DOOR program has exercised art as a point of entry. Through an exchange of creative environments between Hong Kong and the UK, the program brings the role of place and space into full focus as each artist creates work that responds to their new surroundings.This year's special DØR TO DOOR program visualizes the cultural and knowledge exchange between Hong Kong and Oslo. In search of an in-betweenness, Chen romanticizes the gap between the ideal and the past in soft and fragmented figures. His work examines enco...

At Nunu Fine Art New York, six Taiwanese artists look for stability in an endless sea of information in a new group show. In the Moment filters through an aperture of life online as each artist interrogates the cold clutch of digital ephemera.Born and raised in the 1990s, the artists are united by technological advancement and political activity during their coming of age. Bearing witness to the generation of artists that came before them, their work hones in on themes of introspection and individuality—capturing the moment as it comes.With respect to form and focus, the works of In the Moment don’t hold back. Chiao-Han Chueh conjures movement and fantasy in eccentric forms. Fu Ning brings life to doomscrolling through an iridescent imagination. Guan-Hong Lu advantages absurdity and humor ...

After teaming up with ACU for an immersive exhibition in Chengdu, Jahan Loh returns to Singapore to unveil his latest solo show, POSTCARDS FROM SPACE.Featuring a new body of large-scale paintings, the center of the piece on an “interplanetary diaspora” concept, Loh artistically envisions a distant future where humans become inhabitants of exoplanets or other celestial bodies. His signature blend of Eastern iconography, pop culture motifs and sci-fi tone is fully embraced in this exhibition, with every painting not only being visually striking but also exuding a sense of unsettling surrealism that feels almost digital-like.In-line with the predominant space theme, the artworks are all named after actual celestial bodies. In “天宮星:: GLIESE 667CC,” Loh depicts a youthful boy-girl duo clad in v...