18th January – 15th March 2025
In Seeing Light, Chris Doris, combines a monumental series of Spectrum Paintings with text paintings and explores the optical phenomena of light interacting with matter.
Investigating the luminosity of nothingness, Doris observes its subtle energy as it meets the solidity of human conditioning. The Spectrum paintings approach nothingness as a subtle ground state of being and potential, rather than as a deconstructive, nihilistic void.
These paintings have always been accompanied by content-heavy text or collage works. This strategy makes visible the coexistence of the conditioned, conceptual mind and non-dualistic, empty presence in human consciousness.
The text works are extracted from observing the involuntary narratives of the conditioned mind. Some may be stable aphorisms, some the flux of involuntary thought.
Each Spectrum Painting invites the seeing of what obscures seeing, as well as the seeing of the thing itself.
Chris Doris is based in Mayo and Dublin.
Seeing Light runs until 15th March.
