From Loring Knoblauch’s review for collector daily:

If you visit Pia Paulina Guilmoth’s gallery show at CLAMP, and intentionally prevent yourself from reading the handy press release, what you’ll discover is tight selection of mostly nocturnal images, featuring sparkling moons in the night sky, a misty pond, some startled but friendly flash-lit deer, and sprays of illuminated road dust that drift like ghostly spirits. It feels like there is a kind of magic in the air, as seen in delicate glowing spiderwebs gently pulled and extended to reveal their intricate patterns, and in a house torched by roaring flames fronted by a placid white horse looking on with the knowing stare of one who won’t reveal the secret. Nearby, when the sun is up, female figures lounge in the grass and mud covered bodies couple with tenderness. Seen together as a sweep of pictures, Guilmoth has presented a largely bucolic and momentarily astonishing secret world filled with natural wonders, but with an undercurrent of something like menace lingering in the dark.

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Browse the exhibition “Pia Paulina Guilmoth | Flowers Drink the River” at CLAMP