Twisting Figment: Abstract Art Exhibition by Alex Close at Jadro, Skopje

Sunday, July 14

🎨 Twisting Figment – solo exhibition by Alex Close

Jadro, 8:00 PM

Some days feel like the city is holding its breath. Not quite hot, not quite cool — but full of some unnamed anticipation. In this suspended state, Jadro opens Twisting Figment, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based visual artist Alex Close, whose abstract work invites viewers into the very texture of disorientation.

Opening on July 14, Twisting Figment explores the emotional and perceptual process of being unmoored — of having one’s assumptions challenged, flipped, and quietly dismantled. Developed during a year spent living and teaching in China, Close’s work meditates on what happens when you realize that things you believed to be self-evident are not shared, or even legible, in a new context.

Through abstract paintings, textiles, and sculptural elements, she maps a sense of lost footing — the attempt to locate a stable horizon while understanding slips sideways. Her visual language resists easy interpretation. Things seem almost graspable, then recede. One is left suspended in a space where meaning twists midair, like a figment you once trusted but now must relearn.

The show resists easy framing. It’s less an exhibition to walk through, and more a condition to enter. You might not come out with clarity. But maybe that’s the point.

About the artist:

Photo: Alex Close’s Instagram

Alex Close is a visual artist and educator from Toronto, Canada, with Macedonian heritage. Her work explores how contemporary tools — digital media, global transit, urban complexity — shape our bodily perception of memory, space, and movement. She holds degrees from OCAD University (BFA), Glasgow School of Art (MLitt), and Carleton University (MDes). Alex has exhibited internationally, with residencies and shows in Canada, Ukraine, and Estonia, and currently teaches at the College of Chinese and ASEAN Arts at Chengdu University in China.