The exhibition An Ocean within an Ocean, presented simultaneously at the gallery space of the Artist’s House and Goldvicht’s studio, confronts its viewers with a space of in-between, an elusive environment whose assortment of objects don’t seem to articulate, on first look, a single coherent narrative: a bookshelf unit, a slide presentation, a flickering electric switch and different items of furniture carrying video projections. Taken out of context, these objects join in a loose compound that harbors a secret.

And yet, despite a hidden underlying logic that seems to connect them, they exhibit a certain kinship, a shared fate and genetic makeup. In their coexistence, they bring to mind a collection of ‘mnemic traces,’ to use Freudian terminology – psychic images located somewhere between perception and consciousness, shortly before becoming representation or symbol – objects that, by their personal and utilitarian character, appear to harbor life chapters from a past that are now repackaged and stored side-by-side, anachronistically and without any clear hierarchy.

Text by curator Sally Haftel Nave