Night Gallery is pleased to present The Whole Adrift, an exhibition of new works by Paris based artist Corinna Gosmaro. This marks the artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles as well as with the gallery.

The Whole Adrift blurs the line between painting and sculpture. Gosmaro paints onto polyester filters, material that is typically employed for filtering air. These surfaces are three-dimensional, fibrous, and challenging to work with, symbolically perfect for the philosophical framework of Gosmaro’s practice.

In Gosmaro’s thinking, landscape is never merely an environment; it is what she calls a “mindscape,” a visual analogue for the way consciousness builds and traverses its own terrain. The horizon line that flickers between veins and clouds, proposing that the distances we move through in critical thought are topographical. We are, collectively, the landscape—not agents passing through it, but continuous matter within it.

Much like memory invites manipulation, polyester filters resist conventional mark-making. Gosmaro works spray paints, oils, and graphite into her surfaces simultaneously, keeping all layers wet at once as the pigments fuse into the polyester itself. By way of brushes, rollers, and her own fingers, she wrestles the colors in. In some pieces, the artist inserts metal wires for sculptural support. An application of orange from one side of the filter bleeds elsewhere into a luminous atmosphere; pencil pressed into the weave leaves graphite residue suspended in fibers like trapped neural electricity. The result is a surface that is dense with accumulated marks yet suffused with air and light. By bringing these works to the polluted city of Los Angeles, their context gains nuance. 

We filter everything—through emotion, memory, chemistry, culture, and the random accumulation of a life—and that entanglement teems and shifts, ceaselessly generating new combinations. To understand oneself as a filter, as porous and reactive as the material Gosmaro works with, is to become less certain of what one sees. The hopeful result is that we may, in turn, become more alive to every encounter.