James McGrath
by appointment

Salon

2010–2020 · 7 works

In Salon, traditional gallery spaces are folded, sliced, and reimagined as part of a visual palimpsest—part museum, part mise-en-scène. These works explore the image of the interior not as a container of art, but as art itself. Inspired by the notion of the fold—both architectural and cognitive—the series blends digital spatial mapping with baroque illusionism. Figures and flora drift across surfaces that ripple like fabric, unsettling the viewer’s sense of perspective. Museum walls behave like pages of a book being turned, inviting us to step into a fictional archive where knowledge and beauty collapse and refract. These immersive works challenge the static authority of the salon, transforming it into a dreamlike, unstable theatre of perception.

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