Mental Spaces 1

“Mental Spaces” refers to the concept of cognitive structures that are
used by people to represent and organize information in their minds.
They are thought of as mental containers that hold information related
to a particular topic, situation, or context, and can be accessed and
manipulated as needed. They allow people to make inferences, draw
conclusions, and create new meanings based on their experiences
and knowledge. Overall, the theory of mental spaces provides a
valuable framework for understanding how children and adults
organize and make sense of the world around them, and how
language and thought are intertwined in complex and dynamic ways.
This group show brings together eleven artists from Latin America that
reside in New York City. The participating artists were chosen based
on their multiple cross-cultural references in which the poetics of the
absurd are, at times, embraced. It plays on the complex relationships
that exist between the artist's mind and its most intuitive form of visual
expression, often manifested through abstraction.