02/10/2025
or Immediate Release:
Embedded Perspectives
September 27
th – November 21st
, 2025
Artplex Gallery Los Angeles
Memory, silence, and tradition move quietly through the language of art, shaping how and what artists
create. In Embedded Perspectives, Artplex Gallery brings together Nando Kallweit, Amadou Opa Bathily,
and Xenia Gray—artists whose works embed cultural context as a way of seeing, offering vision shaped
by memory and place. The works resonate as both expression and reference, shifting the act of looking
toward the perspectives of the artists themselves, where meaning expands beyond the viewer’s own
frame of context.
Nando Kallweit’s practice carries echoes of formative encounters that shaped his artistic outlook.
Captivated by the iconic bust of Nefertiti in Berlin, he discovered an enduring fascination with archetypal
form that continues to resonate through his work. His sculptures appear elongated and poised, with
figures that seem to inhabit both ancient memory and contemporary presence. Each work balances
strength with delicacy, offering a vision in which cultural atmospheres flow across time and emerge in
quiet, commanding form.
For Amadou Opa Bathily, creation has always been entwined with resourcefulness. His early experiences
in a Bamako recycling workshop revealed the potential of discarded materials, cultivating a philosophy of
resilience and adaptability that continues to guide his practice. This sense of vitality runs through his work,
where surfaces feel alive with energy and form emerges from transformation. Context is embedded within
the work, woven into its very surface and form.
Xenia Gray’s paintings unfold within an atmosphere of silence and restraint. Raised in post-Soviet Siberia,
she developed an acute sensitivity to absence, memory, and the subtleties of emotion that linger beneath
the surface. Her figures often appear suspended in quiet tension, their presence both intimate and
elusive. Layers of paint and shadow build spaces that feel contemplative and charged, suggesting how
cultural climate persists as an emotional register, inscribed into form as much as into feeling.
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