Josh Raz | Trails Through a Reverie

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Artist

  • Josh Raz (b. 1993, lives and works in London) graduated from Newcastle University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art. Since winning the Hix Award (2016), Raz has had eight solo exhibitions, including Mistaken Shores at Ronchini, London (2024), Shaken Ground at Blue Shop Gallery, London (2023), Half Tranced at PaintersPaintingPaintings, London (2022), Trails Through a Reverie at Ronchini, London (2022) and Joyride at Bermondsey Project Space, London (2021).

    Raz has been featured in several publications, including GQ Magazine (May 2017), Artmaze Magazine (November 2021), and Plaster Magazine (February 2024). He has completed residencies at The Fores Project… More

Overview

Ronchini is proud to present our first solo exhibition of London based artist Josh Raz. In ‘Trails Through a Reverie’, figures are presented as haemorrhages on a landscape, or as conduits for paths between two planes of a landscape’s strata. At times, the landscape appears to blossom from the subjects’ bodies, imbuing each with corresponding formal reactions. The paintings often depict the same moments within the same landscapes as experienced by different figures. They consider how a landscape may be internalised and changed through the experiences of different individuals within the same collective narrative.

Much as the land is permeated with a thousand histories, forgotten as they are buried beneath the new, the surface of each painting overlays a chronology of imaginings. Some of these are explored through prose within three accompanying texts. They divulge a haze of latent moments and images that dwell between each painting. They are forks in the road to be taken or to be ignored entirely.