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Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to present In Dreams, a group exhibition featuring works on paper by artists including Armen Eloyan, Volker Hueller, Norbert Schwontkowski and Tomasz Kowalkski.

The predominantly figurative selection of works in this exhibition reveals idiosyncratic narratives and their maker’s desire to construct hermetic alternative worlds. In ways similar to the logic experienced when dreaming, these artist drawn fictions give rise to impossible or incongruous episodes that nevertheless appear convincing when considered within their given context.

In dreams, the subconscious is given free reign and psychosexual dramas are frequently acted out. Armen Eloyan’s recent body of watercolours feature a number of sleeping characters whose fantasies could be considered as metaphors for the frustrations of the studio-bound artist.

Norbert Schwontkowski’s elusive and surreal monotypes often include isolated figures that hover upon indeterminate grounds. Favouring a muted or monochrome palette, the artist generates a faded and worn patina, which suggests half remembered instances from a distant memory.

The lone figures that occupy so many of the compositions featured in this exhibition bear testimony to a solipsist tendency in many studio practices. Here a total emersion in medium and process leaves only enough room for a projected equivalent of the maker.