Eugenia P. Butler: Through The Vanishing Point

Through the Vanishing Point presents the work of Eugenia P. Butler (1947-2008) whose career lasted over forty years and played a formative, but often overlooked, role at the border between conceptual art, community art practice and experimentations with drawing. Through a constant deconstruction of patriarchal logics, her works explore the material, emotional, artistic and psychic labour necessary to meditate on her recondite experiences and traumas: in her own words, she is interested in the "unknown, the psyche, the world of dreams and the unconscious".

For PST ART 2024, The Box presents a selection of Butler's production dedicated to her fascination for transitional states: a collection of abstract drawings that represent mysterious landscapes of physics phenomena of transformation. At the centre of this body of work spirals, holes, spheres and ovals emanate rays of energy, eruptions, overlaps and vortices, producing intensified movements between energy and matter. The viewer is invited to observe these phenomena and to engage with the uncontrollable and the unexplainable of vision and perception.