THE SPIRAL UNIVERSE
EXHIBITION DATES
Mar 8, 2025 - Apr 19, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION
Mar 8, 2025 2pm - 6pm
“According to the account given by Madam X, the extreme opposites of future and past are joined in a sphere by a timeless eternal segment, which she crossed during her journey around the sphere.”
- GAZET, Ancient Explorer Circumnavigates Sphere of Time
The Spiral Universe by Madam X is a solo exhibition at The Philosophical Research Society that captures a unique connection between our relationship with time and timelessness. Madam X’s work draws from a call to be with the unknown realms of Eternal History,* and she describes her encounter with a purpose in revealing a timeless dimension. Her compositions of space, time and matter guide us into the spiral forms in nature and the metaphysical paths of our subconscious mind. The exhibition is a collection of some of Madam X’s early work in relation to her recent practice developed over a few decades. The Spiral Universe invites you to be present with divine mysteries, a foretelling of or from the nature of things to come and things present. A place where image melds with the written word for its visibility in knowing the intrinsicality of all creatures and their occult virtues. Madam X’s approach to language and image offers a deep understanding of exoteric and esoteric nature. Her labyrinthian diagrams and thoughts reflect on humankind as a journey which passes all states of transmutation from the physical to the celestial body. In this mirror of art and spirit we find a re-evaluation of what it means to be human at present, and to witness her work is to reckon with these responsibilities in our time.
*“Each time the energy completes a revolution around the sphere it moves into another sphere and passes around it. And as these spheres accumulate they inscribe a Spiral of Time and Form growing in the order and integration of design.”
- Eternal History
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Artist’s bio:
“Nothing is known about Madam X.”
Curator’s bio:
Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama) is a transdisciplinary Brazilian artist, curator and cultural practitioner based in Los Angeles. She works in collaboration with public libraries, nature and communal spaces, reflecting on the selective nature of memory, inherent language and anthropological references written by women as points of departure. She’s also a librarian at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles where she founded and co-creates a monthly Surrealist Study Group (SSG) focusing on women authors and artists, creating intergenerational community engagement, social practice and arts programming.
Special thanks to Axel Wilhite
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