Pareidolia: Ideas Paradise

Tappeto Volante is delighted to announce Pareidolia: Ideas Paradise group show, curated by Jeffrey Morabito. We are excited to present our first exhibition takeover during our summer hiatus and we are honored to host these talented artists led by Jeffrey Morabito.

Pareidolia: Ideas Paradise

“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.” -- Vladimir Nabokov, Signs, and Symbols.

pareidolia. noun. par· ei· do· lia ˌper-ˌī-ˈdōl-ē-ə, -ˈdōl-yə : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful, image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. A faulty form. A wrong shape.

Anxiety. Fear. Inertia. These are common emotions we experience in a world of perpetual motion plagued by vague uncertainty and acute isolation. Yet in our collective imagination, there is a hidden place where we go for refuge; an idiosyncratic paradise, where ideas are planted in memories and nurtured by experiences. Every so often we pluck an idea from this garden and bring it into reality, and for a brief moment, the world stops spinning. The wrong thing in the wrong place becomes the right idea.

As we try to locate ourselves, be it through corporeality or digital space, the artists in this show redefine the quotidian world through “Pareidolia” with painting, sculpture, photography, and collage. Exploring the realm of paranoid disinformation, anamorphic creatures, distorted reflections, and pop dystopias, they face the world through vulnerability.

-- Jeffrey Morabito