When
March 06, 2025 | 5:00 pm
What
The Loren Hotel’s Paggi House presents “Unstable Territory: Reflections on Memory,” a group exhibition opening to the public on March 6. Curated by Erin Ellis and Kristen Force, the show features works from six local and international artists exploring how memory shapes identity.
Breck Baig is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas, who works in painting and ceramics. Her work is based on evoking emotions through color, space and form. Her goal is to push and pull the viewer through vivid abstraction. These works are made as meditation. Each piece evolves organically, often with emotion and color as the only guiding reference. Her work repeats themes of memory, nature and distorted realities.
b chehayeb is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes paintings, prints and drawings that focus on the reconstruction of failed memories and sensory experiences warped by nostalgia, gender, language and cultural hybridity. Semi-abstract fields of luscious texture, gesture, color and ambiance are perforated with Chehayeb’s growing lexicon of symbols—cowboy boots, stars, horses, snakes, ladders, furniture and the letter ñ—as anecdotes, spaces and emotions emerge from the paint.
Aglaé Bassens is a Belgian artist who creates paintings that portray tender and reflective moments, offering a poignant exploration of intimacy, shared human experience and the tapestry of memory. Often sourced from personal photographs and found images, the imagery evokes the ordinary and attempts to reframe it, inviting the viewer to reimagine and reconsider everyday sights.
Laura Lancaster is a British painter whose work is inspired by the human figure and how its presence is intensified by the opposing entropic force of abstraction, which perpetually subsumes and engulfs the protagonist. Images that are of their era—located in time through incidental clues such as clothing, pose and contingent detail—are monumentalised by Lancaster through painting.
Rachel Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. She selects photographic “stills” from found moving imagery, as well as an archive of her own photographs, then edits and translates them into oil paintings. Lancaster’s paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close-ups of inanimate objects, commonplace domestic interiors—the split-second moments that are “in between” the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become abstract, ambiguous and open-ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow.
Julia Maiuri is a Minnesota-based artist who investigates an imaginative space that lies somewhere between the natural and supernatural, drawing inspiration from film and collective memory. Utilizing the themes of time, truth and diverse perspectives of a single moment, Maiuri explores the realm of the fantastic through her paintings. Referencing mostly horror and film noir, she masterfully incorporates the slow dissolves of film into her paintings and invites viewers into a world of intrigue and introspection.
The exhibition’s curators, Erin Ellis and Kristen Force Boswell, founded Ellis Force Art Partners in 2021. Based in Austin, Texas, Ellis Force Art Partners curates collections for private and corporate clients and advises organizations on arts programming, including curating art-focused trips and organizing panel discussions and events. Utilizing a global network of artists, galleries and dealers cultivated over a combined 30 years of working the international art market, Erin and Kristen provide unparalleled expertise and curatorial services to their clients.
Public viewing of the exhibition is available by emailing pennyaaron.theloren@gmail.com to book an appointment from March 6 – June 5.
Learn MoreWhere
Paggi House at The Loren Hotel
200 Lee Barton Dr, Austin, TX 78704