Seal paints ensembles of objects that don’t quite parse logically: the flowers are thick and meaty, the vases look like hornet nests, his still lifes might be cat scratching posts. Constructed abstractions from memory are camouflaged as depicted realities. Painted from intuition, free association and altered memories, the works evoke instability and a twisted reality from another dimension. Enhancing this feeling will be an installation in the back gallery of tiny figures and a sound installation by Caretaker, a frequent collaborator with the artist.

Ivan Seal (b. 1973 Stockport, United Kingdom) lives and works in Berlin and has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Milan, Zürich, London, and New York. He had solo shows with Allouche Benias in Athens 2022, James Fuentes in 2020 and Monica de Cardenas in 2019, as well as numerous shows with Carl Freedman Gallery in England. Echoing his surrealistic approach to painting and sound art, Seal’s works take their titles from computer-generated words that appear scientific but are actually pure nonsense.