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In-Gate Gallery is pleased to present The Weight of Silence, a solo exhibition by Marie Theres Madani (b.1993 in Vienna, Austria), on view from 13 April until 10 June 2023. 

With her large-format, abstract paintings the artist seeks direct sensual access to herself and, by extension, her recipients. The abstract appearance and expressive composition of her works force a momentum of engagement and a direct emotional reaction in the viewer.

Her first exhibition with the gallery Marie Theres Madani has devoted to the theme which plays an important role in the artist’s approach to her work and her perception of the outer world in general. It’s the theme of the permanent struggle between the external manifestations of the reality, which can be too loud, excessive, and disturbing, and the voice of the inner space of the human’s mind, where we can find the vital source of life energy, personal strength, and creative flow. 

The exhibition includes paintings with mixed media on canvas in large and small formats from The Weight of Silence (2023) and Between the Shadow and the Fold (2022) series.

Silence both withdraws and reveals at the same time. It covers unnecessary things and leads to perceiving oneself. For Madani this does not mean a turning away from noise and sound, but an immersion and focusing on the sounds of creation. A silence in order to listen, a basic phenomenon that manifests itself from her process, but which becomes visible in her work as sounding, rising and fading away. Madani`s work therefore emerges from a state of silence, fading into silence.