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WHEN WE SEE YOU

Kiosken, Bergen, Norway, May 2025

Jack O’Flynn in collaboration with Connie Hurley, Tamara Macarthur, Lisa Rytterlund, Clea Filippea and Ambra Grassi.

Curated by Daniela Ramos Arias

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Luck Upside Down/Quando la Fortuna é Capolavolta

Exhibition at Studio Abra, Turin, Italy. October 2023

In October of 2023 works from When We See You were shown as part of the group show Luck Upside Down/Quando la Fortuna é Capolavolta curated by Marta Montoni and Paolo Volpe. Exhibition text below.

Luck Upside Down/Quando la Fortuna é Capolavolta is a research project based on the relationship that exists in evolutionary astrology between astrology and psychology, between personality theory and diagnostic tool.

The research is conducted in the context of the visual arts by planning occasions of meeting (rituals, laboratories, evenings, exhibitions, dinners, meditations) in which the practices naturally associated with a divine and magical dimension (astrology / tarology / new age) are used as tools of intuitive self-empowerment and relational interaction and considered for their characteristics of self-affirmation, analysis of reality, support and care for each other.

Participating artists: Astri Amari + Michela Depetris + Marta Montoni + Rachele Montoro + Jack O’Flynn with Connie Hurley, Tamara MacArthur and Lisa Rytterlund + are participating in the project
Megan Whitmarsh + Rada Koželj+ Paola Volpe.

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When We See You

Exhibition at Gallery Taxi, Bergen, Norway. November 2022.

In November of 2022, When We See You had its first exhibition at Gallery Taxi, in Bergen, Norway. It featured all the artworks created and a series of texts. Exhibition text below.

When we see you is a collaborative art-making and writing project began by Jack O’Flynn in 2021. Taking cards from the Major Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille as a point of exploration, this project asks: what do we see when we look at the card that sits before us? Over the course of two years Jack playfully re-created imagery found in the Tarot de Marseille with artists Connie Hurley, Tamara Macarthur and Lisa Rytterlund, in a process of exchange and friendship. Texts were written in conjunction with the making of the cards and shared via the online blog, Whenweseeyou.com. Drawing on his work as an artist and yoga-teacher Jack sought to explore the cards from a somatic, intuitive and poetic lens. Searching through the imagery of the cards for the You: The parts of ourselves that are unseen, mysterious and beyond.

‘As a response to the lockdown of 2020 I began a postal collaboration with artist Connie Hurley. Both sharing an interest in Tarot, an idea emerged that we should make Tarot cards together. At the time I was researching and writing about the Tarot for my blog ‘when we see you’ and felt like approaching the cards from a more embodied, tactile way by drawing them. I asked Connie to make me a card with hand made paper, and to interpret the sides of the card in anyway she felt like, leaving a blank space in the middle for me to draw the final image. The resulting card is a playful interaction between two artists, seeing each-other, sharing a space in the mysterious world of a Tarot card. ´

Participating artists: Jack O’Flynn, Connie Hurley, Tamara Macarthur, Lisa Rytterlund.