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Red is the first color to enter our world. It pulses behind closed eyelids, floods the skin when we’re born, and warms the earliest stories told around fire. Long before written language, humans marked their surroundings—and themselves—with red ochre, one of the very first pigments ever used. It is the color of life—circulating, oxygenated, urgent— and the color of danger, warning, and desire. Red announces itself before meaning is even formed.
This exhibition gathers works that approach red as pigment, signal, sensation, and metaphor. Here, red becomes both body and language: the flush that rises uninvited, the slow bruise turning toward violet, the heat of emotion surfacing before words can catch it. It is the mark of intimacy and the sign of rupture, the residue of touch and the stain of violence.
Red has always carried the weight of power—of flags, borders, currencies, and revolutions. It is the color we are told to stop at, but also the color that pushes us forwar…
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Red is the first color to enter our world. It pulses behind closed eyelids, floods the skin when we’re born, and warms the earliest stories told around fire. Long before written language, humans marked their surroundings—and themselves—with red ochre, one of the very first pigments ever used. It is the color of life—circulating, oxygenated, urgent— and the color of danger, warning, and desire. Red announces itself before meaning is even formed.
This exhibition gathers works that approach red as pigment, signal, sensation, and metaphor. Here, red becomes both body and language: the flush that rises uninvited, the slow bruise turning toward violet, the heat of emotion surfacing before words can catch it. It is the mark of intimacy and the sign of rupture, the residue of touch and the stain of violence.
Red has always carried the weight of power—of flags, borders, currencies, and revolutions. It is the color we are told to stop at, but also the color that pushes us forwar…
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