Artists: Ed Moses - Andy Moses - Katrin Fridriks - Santiago Parra

JD Malat Gallery presents Matters of Materiality, a group exhibition that examines materiality as both substance and concept in contemporary abstraction. Texture has long been a means through which artists challenge perception, evoke memory and construct depth. In this exhibition, the surface is not a passive foundation but an active force; shaped, disrupted and redefined through process.

Throughout the history of abstraction, artists have pushed beyond the visual, treating material as a language in itself. From the weight of impasto to the raw tactility of industrial substances, texture has been a site of tension: accumulating, resisting and shifting over time. The works in Matters of Materiality extend this dialogue, revealing a sustained fascination with the physical and conceptual possibilities of surface.

Across varied approaches, the artists in this exhibition manipulate material to disrupt, conceal and reveal. Raw, hand-worked textures interrupt smooth, reflective planes; layered compositions stand in contrast to sharply defined grids. These shifts in form and surface invite reflection on how material asserts itself through presence and absence, opacity and depth.

Matters of Materiality invites us to consider material beyond its physicality. Rather than serving as a passive surface, material is worked, manipulated and transformed, holding traces of process, gesture and intent. The exhibition considers how texture shapes experience, how material defines space, and how a work’s weight and presence shift perception.