The artist’s fifth solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in Tribeca next month.
From Innocence to Awakening
Chloe Wise’s work often captures figures suspended in a state of blissful unawareness, their innocence tinged with unease. In Myth Information, however, her subjects shift into an “Act Two”—aware of the boundaries of their worlds and drawn toward the vast unknown beyond them. The canvases echo a collective awakening, mirroring our own search for grounding in times of uncertainty.
A Dialogue With History and Cinema
Wise continues her engagement with art history, pulling from Caravaggio, El Greco and other canonical figures, but reframes these influences through a cinematic lens reminiscent of Spielberg. The result is an interplay of classical drama and contemporary narrative, where figures tilt their gazes heavenward in a moment of shared vulnerability.
Searching the Celestial Unknown
Set against a backdrop of global “collapse and crisis,” the exhibition asks what it means to look beyond our fractured reality. For Wise, these upward glances become both an act of hope and an acknowledgment of instability—the desire to find meaning when the ground beneath us shifts.
Myth Information will be on view at Almine Rech New York from September 18 through October 25.
