Gallery EXIT is pleased to present a series of new works by Livy Leung, entitled ‘Between a Pause’. By altering lines, shapes, colours in real scenery, Leung creates a flattened space on the canvas towards the intersection between the real and imaginary world. The exhibition title refers to the state of waiting for something to happen in the course of creating this series, and the artist’s attempt to capture the atmosphere between pauses before things are set adrift.

‘Repetition’ and ‘waiting’ constitute an essential part of the painter’s creative process: Repeatedly one adds and eliminates stroke by stroke, alternates between colours, and reconstructs the composition. Sometimes the final work may look almost the sameas before all the changes. It may feel futile at first, but gradually one realises that this is an important part of the painting practice. The process of repeated alteration carries with it the artist’s personal state, as she waits for a sense from the image, to be slowly smoothed and flattened through repeated changes, digested, before finally becoming the image in her mind. It is the artist’s meditation.

Opening reception: Saturday, 14 September, 2-5pm

Gallery address: 3/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo St, Aberdeen