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.