Alchemical Gestures: Tiffanie Delune, Kartini Thomas, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Alymamah Rashed, and Olivia de Posson.

Galerie Revel is pleased to introduce Alchemical Gestures, a group exhibition exploring creative alchemy and spiritual quests through the work of five international women artists.

Take a deep breath.

This exhibition gathers the work of five artists whose creations reflect intimate spiritual quests. In their creative processes, they alchemise their stories, wounds, and sensitivities to spark the "vibrations of the soul" once evoked by the renowned painter Vassily Kandinsky in Concerning the Spiritual in Art, where he describes the artwork as carrying its own autonomous breath, capable of touching the viewer deeply. These dreamlike compositions awaken universal resonances, inviting the public into an exploration of collective memory and ancient knowledge that lives within us. Their visual languages become invitations to rethink our relationship with the world, offering an alternative to contemporary materialist philosophies. Each piece stands as a unique expression of the universal journey that is the search for meaning.

Exhale.

In the tradition of spiritual alchemy, the quest for the Magnum Opus and the transformation of metals chart the ultimate path toward the soul's transmutation. Like the alchemist, the artist uses gestures to shape a slow, profound, and often demanding transformation of the inner Self. This is not about sulfur, lead, or gold-but rather pigments, textiles, and stoneware. Through drawn lines, modelling, and meticulous cutting, the gesture becomes a vehicle for an intimate, liberating, and purifying exploration.

In response to the upheavals of the modern era-the destruction of the living world, hyperconsumerism, and globalised social crises-these practices offer glimpses of reconnection and re-enchantment. They echo the legacy of modern art figures such as Hilma af Klint, Anna-Eva Bergman, and Joan Mitchell-trailblazers of an artistic path where matter and spirit are interwoven.

With her dreamlike cartographies, Tiffanie Delune evokes the memory of dreams. In her mixed-media works (acrylic, spray paint, oil pastels, paper), she weaves together symbols drawn from living forms-celestial bodies, plants, geometric lines-to express a singular aesthetic language in which mystery is revealed through the creation of symbols.

With her stoneware and porcelain pieces, Kartini Thomas explores mythical creatures and strange forms inspired by the biological world. Her intuitive approach to ceramics is both sensory and playful, inviting the public to touch certain works. Each sculpture, with its bulges and uncanny shapes, reveals a renewed perception of otherness and beauty.

Working with papyrus as her canvas, Iranian-American artist Kimia Ferdowsi Kline paints scenes where ochre and flesh-toned figures intertwine and embrace in a symbiosis that is both tender and fraught. Steeped in the memory of her Iranian homeland, her work subtly evokes the multiplicity of human experience-an attempt, much like the Magnum Opus, to approach the unity that connects all beings.

Alymamah Rashed has conceptualised, at the heart of her mystical landscapes, the ethereal figure of the "muslima cyborg," inspired both by Islamic Sufism and the writings of theorist Donna Haraway. Inhabited by spiritual intelligence, these figures-evoking the prayer garment thawb-appear without visible skeletons, focused on the face, hands, and feet. Each bears a single eye, a symbol of access to the spirit through silence, subtlety, and transcendence.

Olivia de Posson describes herself as an "energy artist." Guided by the path of the heart, she uses colour as a vehicle for vibrational information. Her shimmering abstract compositions, rendered in acrylic, resonate like chromatic harmonies. Each hue reflects her personal journey of healing.