MERCURIAL EMANATIONS
Beaty Popescu

February 5 — March 6, 2022
open Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm or by appointment (click here)

Artist Talk: February 27th, 2pm (in gallery attendance limit, online option available)

This is an exhibition of works on paper by Halifax artist and Jungian psychoanalyst Beaty Popescu. The title ‘Mercurial Emanations’ offers insight into the art works in this exhibition.  

“Mercurial” refers to the Roman God Mercury who is a later iteration of the Greek God Hermes.  The mercurial aspect of both of these Deities is alive in the work where they serve as bridges between the upper and lower worlds and as the divine messengers who freely move and convey messages across the worlds of mortals, the Divine and the Underworld.  

From a depth psychological perspective, Hermes and Mercury are known as ‘psychopomps’ who mediate symbolic contents from the collective unconscious — the ego’s deepest foundation — to the realm of ego consciousness through such phenomena as dreams, visions and symbols.

“Emanations” arise by way of the movements of flowing from, or pouring forth: a dynamic by which all things are derived from the deepest mystery. Understood in this way the art works in this exhibition are both ‘creative emanations’ and ‘mercurial messages’ arising from this profound source. 

Each work offers itself as a mirror to the reflective viewer.