Stupor

Zbigniew Rogalski 

Zbigniew Rogalski’s new pain­tings evoke the experience of a per­sistent gaze. Prolon­ged staring at a selec­ted point, image or view can lead to stupor, but it can also trig­ger a reac­tion in the eye – a distur­bance or de-​reality of the view. The pain­ter is intrigued by the sub­jec­tivity of the organ of sight and its creative poten­tial. “Colors are created in the eye,” – com­ments Rogal­ski on his latest pain­tings, which oscil­late between abs­trac­tion and figuration.

Where the Hand Forgets

Reeha Lim & Jin Ruoxi

Brin­ging together two distinct yet inter­woven prac­tices, the exhibition reflects on the spatial, emotional, and sen­sory thresholds that shape the experience of dislocation, memory, and trans­for­mation. Through quiet gestures and shifting architec­tural interiors, both artists trace the presence of absence—where per­cep­tion lin­gers in objects long after the body has left. The exhibition runs from April 11 through May 24, 2025. 

Reeha Lim (b. 1994, Seoul) presents six pain­tings that explore the fragile choreography between interior space and memory. Raised in Nor­theastern China after her family’s migration in the late 1990s, Lim examines belon­ging and sen­sory recall across domestic thresholds. Her paintings—depicting stair­cases, cor­ridors, and par­tially opened doors—feature hands in mid-​motion, as if caught between arrival and retreat. Pain­ted on silk and moun­ted on hinged, hollow stret­cher frames, each work tilts sligh­tly from the wall, blur­ring the distinc­tion between image and object, invitation and barrier.

Jin Ruoxi (b. 1997, Harbin) con­tributes sculp­tural assem­blages that recon­figure everyday materials through mal­func­tion, disuse, and poetic sub­ver­sion. A Paris-​based artist and alumni at the École des Beaux-​Arts, Jin integrates props and tools into theatrical compositions—mouse traps, cur­tain rods, spon­ges, and boxing gloves are displaced from utility and given strange agency. Her work, infor­med by a back­ground in a multi-​religious household and a familial con­nec­tion to medical science, inter­rogates pur­pose, illusion, and the trans­for­mation of the mun­dane into the mythic.