“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I’m sure it’s a good one — and the same goes for paintings.”  Elizabeth Bishop

Inspired by Bishop, this exhibition is based on the idea that the extraordinary is born of everyday experience: if a poem - or a painting - transforms our perception of the world, it is because it has touched us deeply.

Poetics of the Habitual presents works by emerging artists who turn the humble into a visual universe. A flower, some garlic, some bottles: objects that, when contemplated with attention, reinvent space and mood.

In a postmodern context where aesthetic hierarchies are blurred, the banal is given new meaning through simple and precise forms. Each piece acts as a visual verse that, after passing in front of the viewer, makes the everyday environment unexpectedly poetic.

The collection is an invitation to live in the acceleration of the stealthy - to perceive how the ordinary can, for a prolonged moment, rise to the sublime. As Bishop said, if your gaze changes after seeing these works, it is a sign that you have become attuned to a truly transformative poetics.