Rupture of the Mundane Plane

Rupture of the Mundane Plane showcases two recent bodies of work on paper from two series by Yulia Pinkusevich: Isorithm Maps and a new body of work entitled the Q-Series.  In her evolving practice, Pinkusevich has created a bold, visual language that engages interconnection, musicality, space, and materiality to explore the transference of energy over time.  Rupture of the Mundane Plane contextualizes this ethos through an arresting juxtaposition of meditation, intuitive spontaneity, and gestural mark-making. Pinkusevich’s Q-Series began while the artist was in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. The small, amoebic works are made using a slow, meditative process in which the artist places a single ink mark on the paper for every breath she takes. Pinkusevich then connects these marks with fine red pencil lines as a meditation on form, social connection, and biological networks. The intimate works follow an internal logic and pose a scientific visual language. Just like a physical body, they can heal, grow, and regenerate a sense of being. The works in Rupture of the Mundane Plane are mathematical, algorithmic, and geometric, all of which act as a set of rules that guide Pinkusevich through her process. Within these limitations, Pinkusevich can find metaphysical networks of life, connection, rhythm, emotion, and spontaneity.