EBONY/CURATED is pleased to present Always Becoming, a solo exhibition by Anico Mostert.

Known for paintings that merge dreamlike terrain with symbolic forms, Mostert’s practice continues toward a fluid and intuitive visual language. These new works invite audiences deeper into the unconscious, toward unfamiliar territory: a landscape made manifest between the known and the unknown, the self and the other. Here, in flux, a state of mind is shaped by the artist’s gentle propulsion across the spaces of the imagined and subconscious, working to soften the blow of an ongoing and intense inner evolution.

Mostert uses varying combinations of crayon, calico, and paint to create these places that dot the map toward further freedom, as they are not spaces of suffering or entrapment. Instead, they suggest a gainful disturbance, offering a moment of recalibration in which the self adjusts to its own unfolding. It is within this pause, the stretch of time between transformations, that the work of ‘becoming’ truly unfolds. Through these compounded layers, glimpses of earlier mark-making remain visible, allowing audiences to follow the work’s evolution. Instinctive gestures gradually take form, resembling fragments of intuition that hover just beyond conscious, determinable language. In this way, the paintings also echo the mind’s own attempts to interpret what it senses but cannot fully articulate.

– Misha Krynauw