Salvador Dalí’s Birthday Party
David Petersen Gallery•Mar 06, 2026 — Apr 26, 2026
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An exhibition as atmosphere, a tolerance for instability, and an absent monument, titled with a genial derangement of expectation. Meanwhile, kindred spirits may have arrived late but they have arrived together nonetheless. Time is merely speculation, or choreography. This exhibition is not an homage but an afterimage. A birthday party is a climate system for hallucination, a chemistry of intuition and uncertainty. Everything is provisional, including the promise of culmination. Besides, the ancient texts of alchemy always seem to suggest a metaphor, a high-wire act, or prelude to entropy. Read them aloud and try not to smirk. I can’t keep my tongue in my mouth, but keep forgetting my lines. Too much punch, a taste of amnesia. What we try to capture with language is merely sabotage. Freely dance in an ozone of confetti of propositions and revolutions. Pirouette with pleasure around the sun, this celebration is no glitch.
And still, no one wants a celebration to thicken into devotion.…
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Salvador Dalí’s Birthday Party
David Petersen Gallery•Mar 06, 2026 — Apr 26, 2026
Press Release
An exhibition as atmosphere, a tolerance for instability, and an absent monument, titled with a genial derangement of expectation. Meanwhile, kindred spirits may have arrived late but they have arrived together nonetheless. Time is merely speculation, or choreography. This exhibition is not an homage but an afterimage. A birthday party is a climate system for hallucination, a chemistry of intuition and uncertainty. Everything is provisional, including the promise of culmination. Besides, the ancient texts of alchemy always seem to suggest a metaphor, a high-wire act, or prelude to entropy. Read them aloud and try not to smirk. I can’t keep my tongue in my mouth, but keep forgetting my lines. Too much punch, a taste of amnesia. What we try to capture with language is merely sabotage. Freely dance in an ozone of confetti of propositions and revolutions. Pirouette with pleasure around the sun, this celebration is no glitch.
And still, no one wants a celebration to thicken into devotion.…







































































































