Neural Backup
September 12-September 25, 2025
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY, 11206
New York, NY — A Space is pleased to present Neural Backup: A Journey into Dreamlike Aesthetics, a group exhibition that brings into light works that blur the boundaries between memory, imagination, and emotion.
YY Wang’s Eternal Space transforms distorted childhood settings into a dreamlike refuge, where nostalgia and unreality blur to offer comfort and healing. Lisa Penny’s Neurons Firing visualizes the surge of creativity from sensory input through a vibrant mixed-media assemblage of paint, paper, wood, and cork.
Her House Later by Alyson Petruncio captures the uneasy balance of suburban calm and hidden tension, where quiet streets and familiar houses veil a sense of strangeness and unspoken struggle. Hannah Stoll’s Maze E echoes the form of a medieval altarpiece, layering mazelike wooden trim, flowing headwaters, and a surreal landscape where sun, sky, and fertile land converge.
Avery Zeng’s Watercolor piece channels her otherworldly mental landscapes into a painted vision that blurs imagination and reality.Blobette’s Sanctum by Sissy Nunziata uses ceramics to conjure f leshy, grotesque, and sacred forms. Her work celebrates the abject and humorous, finding beauty in awkward excess and delicate collapse.
Rule of Dreams by Huaixuan Xiang revisits childhood dream fragments, transforming ordinary moments into surreal, nostalgic paintings where memory and emotion quietly converge. Xiaohan Pei’s Who Defined My World? critiques female stereotypes through surreal digital illustrations that confront constraints on identity.
Chanya Vitayakul’s In The Quiet After You uses crocheted diptychs to meditate on loss, altered perception, and lingering grief through domestic imagery. Yuhe Li’s sculptural garment expands garments into sculptural forms, using fashion as a medium to explore memory, identity, and the shifting boundaries between body and self.
Maya, of Webs and Whispers by Maha Mohan weaves fragmented ceramics and MRI projections into a fragile landscape of pain and memory, tracing the hidden terrain between inner scream and outer silence. Maryela Gussi‑Schwartz’s Pirinolas evoke childhood nostalgia while revealing emotional turbulence beneath playful surfaces. Simple symbols become metaphors for time’s passage and shifting feelings.
Hailey Scheff’s drawings merge found materials, dream imagery, and spiritual symbolism to explore cycles of transformation and the porous boundary between the subconscious and the everyday. Maham Akhtar’s The Last Goodbye memorializes childhood farewells with layered tapestry weaving that contrasts vibrancy and emptiness. The work’s textures and colors evoke emotional depth and the flow of time. Breath of Reflection by Hanying Xu evokes a dreamlike moment of dissolution and transience, where light, air, and memory blur into a fleeting shimmer.
Together, the works in Neural Backup chart a landscape where memory and fantasy intertwine. They suggest that in embracing the irrational, the fragmentary, and the unfinished, we uncover new ways of sensing, remembering, and imagining. Here, dreamlike images are not escapes from reality but echoes of inner worlds—evidence that the unreasoned and the unresolved hold their own quiet truths.
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