Paulina Peavy — Galerie Emanuela Campoli
A journey of forms and spirits unfolds at Emanuela Campoli Gallery with a major monograph devoted to American artist Paulina Peavy (1901–1999), whose singular body of work is marked by a radical uncoupling of hand and thought, identity and voice—giving way to a multiplied consciousness shaped by metaphysical, esoteric, and sensory dialogues.
Through the invocation of Lacamo, a supra-human entity and cosmic guide, Peavy transforms her art into an interface between visible and invisible worlds—a laboratory for a renewed reading of reality. This staging of an “other” becomes a Jungian archetype, a bridge to the collective unconscious, catalyzing a spiritual vision liberated from the categories of her time. In doing so, Peavy renders the unknown operative and effective within material form, challenging tradition and reinterpreting it through new paradigms.
The scenography by Vera Alemani gives tangible form to the tension between organic density and spiritual ether. The masks on display, like the translucent layers of Peavy’s canvases, channel invisible frequencies—where shapes, colors, and sounds resonate as echoes from an alternate world essential to a symbolic understanding of reality.
Rich with a continuously broken rhythm, the exhibition offers an initiatory journey where motif transcends its formal function to vibrate beyond time and space—while remaining fully anchored in its era. A vertiginous and richly layered plunge into sensory experience, the exhibition embraces ritual experimentation and reveals a joy in line, a yearning for movement in composition, bringing coherence to a corpus whose rediscovery feels not only timely, but necessary.
Paulina Peavy, Works 1930s — 1980s, Emanuela Campoli Gallery, Paris, from June 7th to July 19th, 2025 — "Read more"://www.emanuelacampoli.com/exhibitions/paulina-peavy
