DON’T LOOK Projects is pleased to announce A Wilderness of Mirrors, an exhibition of new paintings by Conor Dowdle. Marking the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition features a body of work that navigates the porous boundary between direct observation and the atmospheric distortions of memory.
Drawing its title from a phrase evocative of strategic deception and refracted truths, the exhibition investigates how we inhabit the “real” in an era increasingly defined by digital simulation. Dowdle’s practice serves as a formal counterpoint to this virtual drift, grounding itself in the tactile immediacy of en plein air study while acknowledging that the act of seeing is never a neutral recording. As John Berger noted in Ways of Seeing, “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
