Passages, Encounter Gallery, Lisbon, September-October 2024

To celebrate the gallery’s 10 year anniversary, Encounter’s exhibition Passages shows the work of gallery artists including Antony Cairns, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Gerry Judah, Whitney McVeigh and Neha Vedpathak.

Across the exhibition, there is a shared excitement for the possibilities by which linear gesture can be newly rendered. In the surging sculptural reliefs of Adam Ball, flowing jets of water carve the form of ‘Full of Time and Silence’ whilst fire chars its wooden edges. In this way, the artist extends his subversion of painterly gesture through the use of elemental forces.

Encounter Gallery, Run de Sao Bernardo 15, R/C 1200-823 Lisboa

Installation image: Adam Ball, Full of Time and Silence, burnt birch, 235 x 75 cm