Award-winning Argentinian digital artist and designer Six N. Five returns to Load Gallery with a show of a peculiar format — a capsule. The word, being associated with limited-edition designer collections, actually implies not “limited” but “focused” for the artist, who offers a rare deep dive into his latest works, including "Flow," "Species," "Circle," and "Memories of Tomorrow” among others. The pieces are products of Pini’s long-term fascination with concepts of time, nature and its behaviours in alternative realities — including the geometrical world of sharp angles and grids — and the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, created over 4 years of dedicated artmaking. With Six N. Five’s notoriously meticulous approach, the show is crafted to progressively immerse the viewer into the altered worlds, where things are not as they seem, to the point where reality appears as a copy.
'Capsule' is reminiscent of the dream-like layers of Christopher Nolan's Inception. The worlds by Pini, while convincingly natural, harbour subtle discrepancies that whisper of another world—a place where physics plays by different rules. The familiarity of natural elements—trees, water, and skies—are reinvented, infused with an otherworldly essence that, while out of place, does not startle. It is a curated dissonance, evoking curiosity rather than fear.
Artworks by Six N. Five, courtesy of the artist
Pini does not create only artworks, he envisions entire worlds where one could imagine living in. In his previous show at Load, the artist premierred the work “Species”, which displays the artist’s distinct method of working with reality — inversion of principle. “Flow” further illustrates this, elaborating on the exchange between natural elements — waterfalls blooming and vegetation flowing like a spring. The works are serene, yet they deeply focus the viewer on own physical presence, own ‘capsules’.
As one moves deeper into the gallery, each artwork serves as a portal into increasingly surreal landscapes. In “The Encounter” the sun sails through a sea of vegetation that mimics the behaviour of water towards the moon. In “Circle”, the cyclic algorithm, a central character in the work of Six N. Five, transitions through different fragments of time that pile up in as unique moments and memories. “We are a circle, without boundaries, beginning or end. Infinity, Unity, connection, just a circle in expansion,” explains the artist.
“Memories of Tomorrow”, originally released in Capitol Theater, Shanghai, offers contemplation on the physicality of time and play with its contingency, recreating instances when time seems to slip away too fast or stand still for ages.
The visitor, like one of the heroes of Nolan's Inception that found themself in a dream, is curiously devoid of any memory of their arrival into this space, but finds themselves at ease. This seamless integration into the environment mirrors the essence of the artworks themselves—each piece a standalone reality, yet intrinsically linked by the artist's contemplative narrative on time and existence. Here, in Six N. Five’s capsule, the boundaries of the gallery walls dissolve, leaving a palpable sense of standing at the threshold of dream and awakening, yet comfortably tethered to neither.
Artworks by Six N. Five, courtesy of the artist
The exhibition is open until 16 April on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 4 to 9 pm.
On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesday, April 10th, the gallery operates in a unique manner: visitors can view the works from outside, getting a different perspective while the gallery itself is closed.