On September 3, Paulo Pasta opens Passages at the David Nolan Gallery in New York City. This is the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery since 2022, when he exhibited in New York for the first time.

Three years after his debut in the city, Pasta presents a robust set of small and large-scale paintings that reveal the artist’s skill in combining oil paint on the three supports he uses: canvas, linen, and paper.

“The exhibition’s title, passages, suggests both movement and interiority. It also suggests the transference of something – such as information, or, in this case perhaps a vision or a memory a la Proust’s madelaine. Perhaps the passage we are seeing is not on the canvas, but through it, from the artist’s memory to ours. This points to an important quality in Pasta’s work: the capacity of painting to suspend time, to occupy the liminal space between memory and perception. His paintings speak to an experience that is neither purely sensory nor purely intellectual, but something in between,” says Tharini Sankarasubramanian.