Mark Manders presents new bronze busts, sculptural landscapes, and paintings that populate the gallery like frozen thoughts — a scenography of the mind. Two monumental heads anchor the ground floor: Bonewhite Clay Head with Vertical-Cloud, its cracked surface ancient and otherworldly, and Monument, a bronze female head made in memory of his mother's silent grief, a lump visible on the figure's throat like words unable to break free. Bone-white recurs throughout alongside self-made newspapers containing all existing English words in random order, framing spare paintings like windows onto an ambiguous chronology. Gravity, melancholy, and the permeable boundary between painting and sculpture define Manders's fictional world.
