PLATO

PLATO is excited to announce Pastime, a group exhibition opening on Thursday, July 16, from 6-8 PM. Pastime features works by seventeen artists from around the world, celebrating leisure, abandon, and everyday pleasures that, according to the dictionary definition, "make time pass agreeably."

 

Inspired by Guillermo Serrano Amat's imaginative restaurant scenes, the show was initially described to participating artists as an open-ended premise: "something on leisure, togetherness, and shared meals." The concept eventually crystallized through the artists' collective vision. One day, after nearly all of the works had been completed, the title announced itself—swiftly and effortlessly, like a warm summer breeze: Pastime. A musical, all-encompassing word, difficult to translate precisely, it incorporates both the passage of time and the past itself—an experience already becoming a memory even as it is being lived. 

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