Decoy

In his sixth solo show in Berlin, Spencer Finch continues to explore the meaning of color, the passing of time, and the relationship between science and poetry. The exhibition entitled Decoy includes new and important older works that in their radical reduction create a dynamic movement between abstraction and a precise rendering of the ephemeral. In the works on paper, paintings, and a large light installation for the gallery’s windows, he succeeds in making the fleeting and evanescent palpable and in documenting perspectives that often escape our notice: ‘In this exhibition I am intentionally trying to slow down the viewing process and open my eyes wider, and I am asking the viewer to do the same. When we return to the world, maybe we will look a bit more carefully, maybe we will find more beauty and difference out there in the wild.’ – Spencer Finch