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Unweave the Rainbow: A Contemporary group show opens at Scream Gallery

LONDON.- Scream presents ‘Unweave the Rainbow’, its second annual curated exhibition of emerging artists. The sequel to last January’s ‘States of Reverie’, ‘Unweave the Rainbow’ features young artists from the USA, UK, China and Poland, each with a unique style, who have in common a psychedelic, other worldy or surreal sensibility. The exhibition title is inspired by John Keats’ 19th Century poem ‘Lamia’, an allegory for man’s attempt to separate emotions and sensuality from reason, this poem inspired the selection of artists in ‘Unweave the Rainbow’. The practice of each artist featured in this exhibition demonstrates tension between dream and reality, imagination and reason. Several of the artists work in 2 or 3 dimensions, for example Caroline Jane Harris who creates otherworldly handcut monochrome photographs, Jen Stark whose psychedelic paper sculptu