When the Veil is Thin

"When the Veil is Thin"

from Saturday, October 4, 2025 to Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Galerie XII Los Angeles

When the Veil is Thin gathers four artists whose works summon the liminal, the hidden, and the unseen. On view at Galerie XII Los Angeles from October 4th through December 9th, 2025, the exhibition inhabits the autumn season, a time when shadows lengthen and the boundaries between worlds feel most porous. Charlotte Mano conjures up self-portraits lit only by the full moon. Presenting herself as a shimmering and pearlescent form floating free into the night, she then manifests as the moon itself: a glowing and enchanted body, utterly serene in its solitude. Quentin Shih evokes the instability of memory as something spectral. His images of bodies under red light or interiors glowing with eerie presence suggest recollection as a summoning. Figures appear and fade in shadow, caught between what is half remembered and half imagined. Siri Kaur threads the intimacy of family life with archetypal narratives of transformation. Her work reveals the uneasy overlap between home and myth, where family becomes bound to occult frameworks and ritual structures that are innately formative. Anja Niemi captures the parallel dissolution and evolution of personality as it erupts between conflicting selves, donning wigs, costumes, and disguise to portray her own various döpplegangers, fracturing identity into roles and bewitchingly blurring the lines between them. Together, these artists shape a twilight hour, where perception wavers and thresholds loosen. Here, their images are immortalized as answers only gained beyond our waking hours, in whatever realms may lurk beyond the veil. In this gathering, When the Veil is Thin, the world holds its breath, and what lies just out of sight begins to stir.