Susana Guerrero | Christine Nguyen
Lily Prince | Danielle Riede
Chelsea, New York: 532 Gallery presents In the Belly of the Valley, a group exhibition featuring works by Susana Guerrero, Christine Nguyen, Lily Prince, and Danielle Riede. In the Belly of the Valley will open on March 14th and run through April 13, 2024.
Cutting across the works of the four artists on view is a singular take on nature which verges on the mythopoetic. Susana Guerrero, Christine Nguyen, Lily Prince and Danielle Riede, all take as their starting point observable, tangible realities—landscapes, floral growths, the physicality of bodies, patterned traces of organic evolution—only to transmogrify them by way of the inner reflectiveness of the creative imagination. What emerges from this attitude is less sublimation than a way of preserving what is most unique, precious, and enduring about nature, and the morphologies that extend from it. In the Belly of the Valley could be considered a liminal archive, a taxonomy of etheric data, where natural history elides into poetry.
