At its heart, photography is an act of revelation. For artists  Toha De Brant, Ilan Weiss, and Sophie Vanhomwegen it is also an act of concealment. Each devoted to exploring the transitional space between what is shown and what is kept hidden.

Their work challenges the very definition of photography, dissolving the image into the textured feel of painting, the play of illusion, and the immediacy of sensory experience. One abstracts the gaze, another fractures the body into intimate fragments, a third seeks a primordial unity with nature.

The title, 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝑒𝒾𝓁 𝐼𝓈 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓃, anchors the exhibition. It borrows from spiritual traditions that speak of moments—at dusk or dawn, or between seasons—when the boundary between the material and the ethereal softens, allowing passage between worlds. This idea connects all the works, made visible through blur, mask, and shadow. They engage directly with the paradox noted by psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott: that artists are driven by the twin urges to communicate and to conceal. Their imagery is a quest toward growth, moving from a need for control toward a state of acceptance. Letting go becomes a method to reinvent and transform.

The exhibition is structured around three pairings, each illuminating a different facet of this central theme:

Sophie △ Ilan explore the persona as a fragile construction. Their work traces the masks worn for performance and for protection, examining the fine line where a celebration of self becomes an escape from it. A palpable tension hangs between pleasure and decay, between being seen and being lost.

Ilan △ Toha pursue a dissolution of the self into the environment. Their collaborative energy calls for a reconnection to primal, elemental forces—the body not as a separate entity, but as water, earth, and organic matter. Employing the intimate and immediate tool of the smartphone camera, Ilan and Toha capture the world as it unfolds before them—prioritizing instinct over intention, and preserving the present moment without intrusion. This method underscores a fundamental truth present in all the works on view: that to look is an act of vulnerability, and that true intimacy often requires staying in the shadows.

Toha △ Sophie map a topography of the sensuous and unspoken. Zooming in on the body, they treat sensuality not as spectacle but as a private language, giving form to deeply buried desires. Through moving image, sound, and tactile suggestion, they create an immersive field that asks the body to remember and the gut to speak.

𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝑒𝒾𝓁 𝐼𝓈 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓃 is an invitation to lean in closer, to look beyond the surface, and to consider what resonates in the quiet space between seeing and sensing.