COMA is pleased to present a group presentation, titled ‘So Red It Looks Black’, on view 20 October – 25 November 2023, at the Chippendale gallery. Featured artists include Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Erica Mao, Jared McGriff, Nabilah Nordin, Madeline Peckenpaugh, Shan Turner-Carroll and Li Wang. Utilising ways-of-seeing and perspective shifts to assess how intimate moments and ideas of closeness become all-encompassing. So Red It Looks Black acts as an access point to the density of feeling and how this is communicated. Presenting a group of artists that address instances of personal significance, this closeness to the creator and their individual circumstance allows a viewer to not only access and rationalise, but also empathise and in-turn possibly desire, or detest. Looking at contemporary art-making as multifaceted and crossing conceptual and material borders, the inevitable conglomeration of ideas and images is a thickness difficult to penetrate. Images courtesy the artists and COMA Gallery.