dylan ray arnold: THE GROWTH OF NIGHT PLANTS

The curator/writer Katia Porro writes: “The physical dimensions of consciousness are put to rest, pushing flowers from bed-replacing drawers in the night. And if nocturnality may suggest a certain obscurity, the night that is summoned here is one that evokes a fertile reverie, one that flirts with a certain psychedelia. Everything is breathing, pulsating, hiding, revealing, looking and stumbling awkwardly as accumulated objects manifest the everyday/night experience, however overwhelming it may be. The redundancy, absurdity yet importance of systems – think nervous, digestive, circadian and root – present themselves as a still image of metamorphosis. In this spatial diagram in which everything is intrinsically relational, the draw-er — the artist — and the drawer present us with a need for withdrawal — a withdrawal that is nevertheless transformative. And although the short lifespan of the night flowers cue their own demise, one isn’t to forget that death is always a possible outcome in play. In “Growth of the Night Plants,” dylan ray arnold offers an insight into how the hermetic figure’s rumination, or the depths of a drawer, are not simply destinations in pure dust, but rather generative and imaginative stopping places necessary for transformation.