The Intuitionist

Our inner realms defy boundaries. In their emotional, spatial, and spiritual states, the dichotomies of our lived experiences dissolve and disintegrate as our identities become confronted with expectation.

In this joint exhibition, Natia Lemay and Xavier Daniels turn inward, then outward, tracing the soft ruptures between the seen and the intuited. Rather than presenting identity as something static or easily understood, both artists engage with their practice of painting in a way that prompts a sustained inquiry into how the self is shaped by inherited structures, cultural perception, and the nonlinear nature of memory.

What binds the practices of these two artists is a commitment to complexity over clarity and sensation over-simplification. Together, Lemay and Daniels offer not a mirror, but a membrane. These are not declarative works; they are atmospheric, elemental. Instead, they ask viewers to sit in the space of not-knowing, to attune themselves to what exists beneath the surface. Whether through the slow intrusion of nature into domestic space or the redirection of the gaze away from confrontation, each artist proposes an undoing of binaries, of societal scripts, of the clean borders between the seen and the felt. These works do not explain; they invite, and they interrupt. Unfolding before us, we watch a slow return to what has always existed beneath the surface, waiting.