For the 10th anniversary of the creation of Port Tonic Art Center, we are pleased to invite you on Thursday, July 17, 2025, for a retrospective exhibition and presentation of the artists received this year in residence.

“VISION SALEE”

Salty Visions invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a universe where light intertwines with matter, where transparency meets opacity, and where each canvas becomes a sensitive landscape suspended between clarity and mystery.

The title — salée, meaning “salted” — lingers like an aftertaste, a trace upon the skin. It evokes tactile and emotional atmospheres, akin to a crystallized memory. These images speak of fragility and transformation, of the tension between purity and imperfection, and of the fluid movement between the visible and the hidden.

Through their distinct approaches, the six artists in the exhibition — Damini Yadav, Maria Duque, Chengcheng Sheng, Bjorn Calleja, Kim Lim, and Luca Martini — each summon a form of sensitive matter: a fragment of an inner universe, a texture of memory, an echo of lived experience. Their works explore painting and visual language as sites of transformation — where emotion takes shape, perception slows down, and the world reveals itself through layered surfaces and materials presence.