Hashimoto Contemporary is happy to current The Moon Underwater, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Madeleine Tonzi. The exhibition is an investigation into distortion and relationality. The panorama serves as a metaphor, chatting with the methods wherein we relate to the world round us — every object positioned throughout the composition offers that means and context for the subsequent. This physique of labor represents a proper and conceptual distillation of Tonzi’s established visible language—lowering it to its most elemental elements which provide area for each refined nuance and assertive type—a way of readability in a world rising extra obscure and sophisticated by the day.
The title evokes a visible metaphor: the moon mirrored beneath the floor of water—distorted, but contemplative. It’s dreamlike and delightful, but in addition disorienting—a mirror world that speaks to the ambiguous, typically surreal nature of the current second. By way of visible discount and compositional restraint, the work creates an area for contemplative engagement—inviting the viewer to to navigate the refined thresholds between what’s perceived and what’s identified.
“My earlier collection, Petrichor, examined our relationship to the pure world by natural, sensorial collaboration,” Tonzi says. “In The Moon Underneath Water, that investigation continues, however turns inward— towards our notion of reality and actuality, and the function distortion performs inside these constructs.”
