“Interdum Mane is not a promise that morning always returns. It is the record of an artist who kept returning to it anyway.”

Interdum Mane, the debut Miami solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Laure Mary. Taking its title from the Latin phrase meaning “sometimes in the morning,” the exhibition explores the early hours as a suspended space between dream and reality, silence and awakening. Beginning her days between 4:00 and 5:00 AM, Mary creates dusky, surrealist oil paintings shaped by the stillness and possibility of this transitional moment.

Throughout the exhibition, familiar objects become charged with symbolic meaning. Hats suggest identity, disguise, and role play, while recurring chairs evoke reception, reflection, absence, identity, and hierarchy. Nested houses, doorways, and landscapes create layered thresholds, offering glimpses of spaces that remain just beyond reach. Through these recurring motifs, Mary constructs a world where recognizable elements are transformed into enigmatic, dreamlike scenes.

Drawing from the visual language of Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque still life, Mary reimagines traditions of symbolism, mortality, and vanitas through a distinctly contemporary perspective. Her quiet interiors and suspended landscapes consider presence and absence, memory and imagination, and the inevitability of passing. At its core, Interdum Mane asks what remains in the brief moment before the day begins: a space not of certainty, but of possibility, where we are invited to look once more and allow something to begin again.

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