Your mind is a mirror

I do not sleep.

Traces and fragments float in my consciousness.

Past, present, future – could it be the same?

Under the thin layer of my eyelids

unbeknownst to all

I follow these bows and curves of time.

All those sensations, emotions, desires

Dreamed, seen, imagined, felt

Pool into the mirror that is conscience.

I am a leaf.

Quivering, honest, uncertain.

I float outside, but also inside – could it be the same?

If I'm careful enough

I can hear the sound of my lungs

my heart

and see glimmers outlining a moon through my eyelids.

I wake up, and out I go again...

I do not sleep.

~

In Your mind is a mirror, the practices of Ani Gurashvili, Jacopo Pagin, Anjuli Rathod, and Dominique Sirois open up to an array of influences ranging from historical and cultural myths to personal narratives and inquiries, into a symbolic imagery that is mysteriously familiar. Chaotic and complex, those embodied memories, layered temporalities, and mental images unfold in the artists' mind, turning to creation to make visible what is not visible enough. New images are born from within and become living carriers of possibility.

Text by Michelle Bui

Ani Gurashvili is a Georgian painter living in Vienna. She received a bachelor’s degree in Media Arts from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and a diploma in Painting from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include Scattered Gems Harkawik (Los Angeles, USA); The Soft Breeze of Mortality; Harkawik (New York, USA), and Cautious Watcher; Patara Gallery (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Jacopo Pagin is an Italian painter and sculptor living in Brussels, Belgium. Pagin graduated with a degree in Painting and Decoration from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice and received an MFA from LUCA School of Arts, Brussels in 2018. He recently had a solo exhibition at Make Room (Los Angeles, USA) and has been widely shown internationally, including at Everyday Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium); CB32 (Milan, Italy); Castella Malaspina di Massa (Carrara, Italy); Manifesta XIII (Marseille, France); HVW8 (Berlin, Germany); Chalton Gallery (London, UK); and The Hole (New York, USA).

Anjuli Rathod lives and works in New York, USA. She earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has participated in residencies at The Millay Colony of the Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and Shandaken Projects. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Y2K Group (New York, USA); Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, USA); Projet Pangée (Montreal, Canada) and Safe Gallery, (New York, USA). Selected recent group exhibitions include Jeffrey Deitch, (New York and Los Angeles, USA); Deli Gallery (New York, USA); Selenas Mountain (Queens, USA); and Harkawik (New York, USA).

Dominique Sirois lives and works in Montreal. She holds a PhD in in art studies and practices from Université du Québec à Montréal. Her practice takes the form of multidisciplinary installations and are composed of complex displays presenting ceramics, sculptures and assemblages. Her work has been exhibited at artist-run centers across Canada such as Clark, AXENÉO7 and Latitude 53. She has participated in international residencies in Glasgow, Paris, Shanghai, Taiwan, Barcelona and Banff. Sirois’s work has been shown in group shows at Fondation Phi and Gallery of UQAM (Montreal, CANADA), The Ludwig Museum (Budapest, Hungary), Le Commun (Geneva Switzerland), Taipei MOCA and Unicorn Center for Arts (Beijing, China).