MAREA

MAREA, the Italian word for tide, becomes here a metaphor for thought as movement: continuous, shifting, and never fully fixed. Like a tide, perception does not unfold in a straight line, but advances and recedes, carrying fragments of memory, symbols, gestures, and partially formed images. Meaning emerges gradually, through repetition, interruption, layering, and return.
The exhibition brings together Sabrina Bockler, Ruben Einsmann, Shawn Huckins, and CB Hoyo through works that approach the image as something unstable rather than resolved. Across different languages and materials, each artist engages with a threshold between appearance and disappearance. Figures dissolve into their surroundings, landscapes are filtered or withheld, narratives survive as fragments, and painterly forms seem to hover between sign, memory, and impulse.
In this sense, MAREA is not about the sea as subject, but about the logic of movement it suggests. It describes a mental rhythm: the way images rise, insist, fade, and return. Some works move through immersion and distortion, others through veiling, erosion, or gesture. Together, they create a sequence of visual currents in which clarity is temporary and meaning is always in formation.
Rather than presenting the image as fixed or complete, MAREA approaches it as fluid: something capable of shifting between visibility and obscurity, presence and residue, surface and depth. What connects these works is not a single visual style, but a shared interest in the moment before an image settles, when it still carries the force of uncertainty.
As James Joyce wrote,
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”