Over the Influence is pleased to present American artist Brian Robertson’s Asia debut exhibition Imaginary Friends in Hong Kong from 21 August to 2 October 2021.

Imaginary Friends is a meditative look at last year’s social isolation where Robertson found himself weighed down emotionally from quarantine and disconnected from friends and family. The new collection of paintings is an explorative study of the artist’s personal connections, artistic practice, self-identity, and preconceived reality.

In the past year Robertson experienced the phenomenon Apophenia, also known as the subconscious’ ability to find patterns in seemingly unintelligible data as a way to find meaning amidst confusion. Classic examples of Apophenia is seeing the Man in the Moon, finding animal shapes in clouds and identifying constellations to represent a map of the night sky.

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