The Imaginarium

In The Imaginarium, Peter Alwast presents a solo exhibition of paintings that continue his exploration of social
abstraction. Created between 2022 and 2024, these works engage
with interconnected themes of communal fragmentation and the
influence of technology on the eerie landscape.
Each painting in the exhibition is developed through a meticulous
process over many months, intertwining improvisation, structure,
imagery and abstraction in layered fields of luminous colour. With
an openness to the unpredictable, the works in the exhibition
oscillate between beauty, dread, and loss, capturing the intricate
emotional terrain of the contemporary moment.
Engaging with a language that is both painterly and conceptual,
Alwast positions his work within broader dialogues about the role
contemporary painting can play as a repository of complex and
contradictory information. The works in the exhibition function as
material surfaces of conversion, drawing on various historic styles
of painting while simultaneously mirroring contemporary anxieties
and speculative thresholds for imagining new possibilities of
meaning.