193 Gallery, Venice
Photo: Gabriele Bortoluzzi
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
De la Conférence des Palmiers, totem dattier (From the Palm Conference: Date Palm Totem), 2024 Earthenware, stoneware, ink, wool, metal
Untitled (Maynada Mangoes), 2017
Graphite, acrylic, gesso, enamel paint, ink and xerography on paper.
“… In their extension, Adler Guerrier’s photographs, capturing the vegetation of Miami’s urban gardens, shift this idea of community toward an expanded temporality: enhanced with painted color forms named after other geographies (Gris Bamako, Rose Passada), they suggest discreet presences, like traces of souls or markers of community. In the heart of the city, the garden becomes a site of projection and patience—a space where something is cultivated beyond the human scale, a promise of continuity, perhaps a dream of Eden, in any case a form of transcendence.
Through these practices, Soul Frequencies sketches a sensitive cartography in which music acts as a principle of circulation and persists as vibration. From one gesture to another, from one image to the next, a shared space emerges where everyday life—sometimes tested—quietly opens onto elsewhere. Perhaps this is where the strength of this gathering of artists lies: in its ability to bring forth, at the very heart of the real, forms of displacement—escapes, breaths—where art, like music, reveals what is common to us and opens up the possibility of making community.”
