Chinese artist Xie Lei’s “Au-delá I,” a 2023 oil-on-canvas painting, is included in the “Natural Mystics” exhibition at The Warehouse.
The Rachofsky Collection
“Natural Mystics,” a thrilling new Texas-size show of 68 top-tier contemporary artists at The Warehouse, frames its roster as responding to the disenchantment caused by “technological efficiency, algorithmic control and climate collapse” with “magical and otherworldly thinking.”
Though it’s impossible to summarize the show as a whole, one of its running themes is the way that living things in the natural world generally, and human beings specifically, can resist or elude precise quantitative measurement and categorical definition, instead flowing and shape-shifting across boundaries in surreal ways.
In the creation of an absorbing, dreamlike fantasy world in which a visitor can float from one gallery to the next, the show leaves somewhat open the question of how the works’ visions might lead, as suggested, to an “alternative future” or a “path forward.”
Details
“Natural Mystics” continues through Jan. 31 at The Warehouse, 14105 Inwood Road. Open Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m., online registration required. Free. Call 214-442-2872 or visit thewarehousedallas.org.
Sean Landers’ 2023 oil painting “Sperm Whale Skeleton 1” is part of the Texas-size “Natural Mystics” exhibition, which continues through Jan. 31 at The Warehouse.
The Rachofsky Collection
