BEIGE is proud to present the new exhibition ‘Compound Lenses’ bringing together works by Marina Pinsky, Nancy Lupo, Sofia Duchovny, and Gianna Surangkanjanajai. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with Marina Pinsky, borrows its title from the layered structures used in optical instruments—systems of multiple lenses that refine, shift, and deepen what we see.
In optics, compound lenses are designed not for singular clarity, but for complex correction: one lens adjusting the distortions of another, creating space for subtler kinds of focus. This logic quietly runs through the exhibition, where perception is shaped not by immediacy, but by distance, layering, and delay.
“She spoke about the way when your eyes go out of focus you know things are there but you don’t quite see them,
and how her mind is like that. It is out of focus. I said: ‘But in the dreaming that accompanies sleep the mind is out
of focus because it is not focusing on anything unless coming round to the sort of dream that can be brought forward
into waking life and reported. I had in mind the word ‘formlessness’ from the last session, and I was applying it to
generalized dream activity, as contrasted with dreaming.”
Playing and Reality
D. W. Winnicott