Swallow the Moon

Amanita is pleased to present Swallow the Moon, a group exhibition curated by Reilly Davidson featuring works by fifteen artists. Swallowing the moon is taking full stock of the night, and being completely wrapped up in it. One minute you're dancing in the club, the next you're with a stranger, between some sheets; or the evening turns inward, and you spend it floating through dreams and nightmares. There are the stars above, bodies below. The exhibition explores nocturnal themes through various media, with works that toggle across states, spaces, positions, and timeframes - from inhabiting the nocturne to anticipating its arrival. The show features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and video works that examine romance, science, anticipation, and mundanity in relation to night's multifarious situations. Works range from Ellen Berkenblit's painting of a woman drifting through darkness, to Isabella Ducrot's fabric portrait of the sleepwalker from Bellini's opera La Sonnambula, to Michaël Borremans's mysterious composition of disappearing children, creating a temporal loop that completes with Ed Ruscha's rooster heralding the night's end.