Nocturne

Nocturne seems an appropriate title for a moderate and expressive exhibition by the artists Koo Jeong A and Tomás Saraceno at Waddington Custot Dubai, organized in collaboration with Pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, Italy. A nocturne is a musical composition in vogue during the Romanticism, not necessarily evocative of the night, but realized for the execution in the dreamlike and magical atmosphere of the night. The artworks presented by Koo Jeong A and Tomás Saraceno, who are both dreamers, or rather visionaries par excellence, even though they travel the circadian rhythm (circa dies) of life, they seem to refer, in this exhibition, to the nocturnal chronotype, since the beating heart of the show is preserved in the coffer of the dark.

The exhibition, with its lyricism, traces imaginary lines with the starry night to awaken our inner compass, our endogenous GPS, as light is a strong synchronizer compared to the attention of environment, to remind us that our perception of the world is at stake - we are not born disoriented, we become disoriented.  In this sense we could interpret, this time, the dodecahedrons clusters, the Clouds of Tomás Saraceno, as the hexagonal web formed by place and grid cells, that together in our hippocampus, answered the questions: where am I? And then where I am going?