GLASGOW Tramway Pessoa’s choice of “Pilgrim Fields” as the exhibition title beautifully captured the feeling of earthy spirituality encapsulated by this low-lying sculptural landscape, while at the same time evoking journeys and the interconnectedness of our world.
SALTAIRE, U.K. Salts Mill The immensity should, perhaps, be overwhelming, or difficult to deal with, but it is not. Viewers effortlessly enter the fabric of the work, becoming part of its subtle interweaving of time, people, and space, as mind and body are touched by sound, color, and texture.
Entwined grew out of my preoccupation with how nature reasserts itself in abandoned, vacant places. I’m drawn to the way that vines spiral into emptiness, how they fill voids left behind, their tendrils reaching without logic or order.
For 20 years, Linda Sormin has explored fragility, upheaval, migration, survival, and change through ceramic and mixed-media sculptures and site-responsive installations. Her work has always been influenced—at times unwittingly, she says—by her family roots in Thailand, China, and Indonesia.
The work of Spanish visual and sound artist Marc Vilanova occupies the intermediate spaces between art, science, nature, and technology. His sculptures, installations, and performances are designed to “promote active listening to the often-unnoticed voices of the world around us.”
June Crespo’s sculptures make use of the wall and ceiling as much as the floor. They jut, protrude, hang, and, at one point in “their weft, the grass” (2024), her recent show at 1646 Experimental Art Space in The Hague, they penetrate.
Berlin-based Monika Grzymala listens to line, orchestrating its shifting intimations into space, plane, landscape, performance, and sculpture. Her Raumzeichnung (Space Drawing) works—which she defines as thought guided by the hand—always push boundaries, reconsidering how we define artworks and their parameters.
Intricate connecting lines flow through Indriķis Ģelzis’s sculptures, installations, and drawings. The Riga-based artist grew up in the post-Soviet moment, the son and grandson of prominent architects who helped to shape Latvia’s built environment, so it’s not surprising that his work harnesses line and geometry not only to organize form, but also to convey information, both concrete and abstract.
WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Though van Heuvelen sticks close to the visual reality of things, and fidelity is paramount, scale is something else altogether.
