The Imaginarium

27 November – 1 February 2025

Sydney
PETER ALWAST

27 November – 21 December 2024

Gallery 9 is closed until 29 January 2024. Exhibition extended for an additional week when Gallery 9 reopens in the New Year
29 January – 1 February 2025

In his latest exhibition, The Imaginarium, Peter Alwast presents a series of paintings that continue his exploration of social abstraction. Created between 2022 and 2024, these works engage with interconnected themes of communal fragmentation and the influence of technology on the eerie landscape.

Each painting in the exhibition is developed through a meticulous process over many months, intertwining improvisation, structure, imagery and abstraction in layered fields of luminous colour. With an openness to the unpredictable, the works in the exhibition oscillate between beauty, dread, and loss, capturing the intricate emotional terrain of the contemporary moment.

Engaging with a language that is both painterly and conceptual, Alwast positions his work within broader dialogues about the role contemporary painting can play as a repository of complex and contradictory information. The works in the exhibition function as material surfaces of conversion, drawing on various historic styles of painting while simultaneously mirroring contemporary anxieties and speculative thresholds for imagining new possibilities of meaning.

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