Nazarian / Curcio is happy to current Lover’s Knot, Wendell Gladstone’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. On this new physique of labor, Gladstone explores intimacy as each a bodily and metaphysical expertise. Figures seem in intertwined embraces—our bodies threaded collectively like cords—evoking the emotional complexity and binding drive of human connection. The knot, as each motif and metaphor, anchors the exhibition as a logo of affection’s capability to assist, entangle, and rework. Drawing from the symbolic custom of the lover’s knot—an emblem of unbreakable bonds present in jewellery, artwork, and folklore—Gladstone expands its which means into the architectural and emotional area of the work.
Gladstone’s compositions blur the road between physique and construction. Architectural components—balconies, hearths, and facades—tackle sentient qualities, shifting in response to the emotional cost of their environment. These areas act not as backdrops however as extensions of the figures themselves, echoing the vitality of the relationships they comprise.
Nature seems as one other connective drive. Sinuous vines wind via the works, serving as each bodily hyperlinks and symbolic threads of attachment. The recurring picture of the balcony emerges as a liminal zone between inside and exterior, home and wild, aware and unconscious—highlighting the stress and concord inherent in connection.
Narrative thrives punctuate the sequence: a seahorse leaps towards a fowl in Tide by My Aspect, whereas a stained-glass fireside sparkles with a imaginative and prescient of a kiss in Ardour Premonition. These moments recommend love not solely as a lived expertise however as a mythic or prophetic drive.
Gladstone’s distinctive visible language—surreal, symbolic, and emotionally resonant—invitations viewers right into a world the place our bodies turn into buildings, structure breathes, and emotion takes kind. In Lover’s Knot, love itself turns into a form of structure: constructed, sure, and sustained by invisible forces.
