Enari Gallery is blissful to current After Darkish, a solo exhibition by Madison Skriver. Her new collection explores the stress between nostalgia and actuality, drawing inspiration from mid-century American tradition and cinematic storytelling. With influences like David Lynch, the artist delves into the distinction between the idealized American dream and the unsettling truths beneath its polished exterior. Her work, made with daring colours, surreal mild, and layered symbolism, create a dreamlike ambiance that displays a haunting sense of the previous.
Influenced by movie and tv, Skriver crafts scenes that really feel like fragments of a forgotten dream—suspended between reminiscence and fantasy. The previous, seen by way of the sheen of time, turns into each untouchable and enigmatic, its ghosts lingering beneath the floor. Echoing Lynch’s rigidity between phantasm and actuality, her work function portals to an alternate world, the place nostalgia shimmers with an eerie undercurrent.
“We discover ourselves in a world that feels each surreal and acquainted, suspended between actuality and dream,” Skriver writes. “The compositions of those work resemble film stills, inviting viewers to interpret their very own unfolding tales. Themes of magic and the supernatural naturally lead us to think about the extra surreal points of life. Ritual is without doubt one of the items on this present that embodies these concepts. The prominently displayed saddle footwear paired with folded socks evoke girlhood, seemingly from a bygone period. But the scene is ambiguous—Is she at a slumber get together? Are her dad and mom dwelling? Do the candles encircling her recommend an harmless recreation or one thing extra sinister? We’re left to surprise what sort of ritual is going down.”
