issues more specific to the mediums and processes of painting and sculpture. Many of the early century avant-gardes promoted abstraction as a program that could integrate painting, sculpture, architecture, design and even social activism. In the mid-20th century theorists like Clement Greenberg advocated rather dogmatic and essentialist ideas regarding the autonomy and self-referentiality of the work around Abstract Expressionism. With the emergence of post-modern critical theory and aesthetics as well as conceptualist art practices in paste decades, abstraction became, to many, a thing of the past, its ideas considered somewhat irrelevant to contemporary art practice. This exhibition does not attempt to examine the historical implications of abstraction but rather to assess the vitality of an expression that still holds currency among contemporary artists even if it has often been deemed bankrupt. This small survey of recent (2000-2007) abstract works by contemporary artists gives us an insight on abstraction today. The exhibition charts a course that begins with artists engaging in a more painterly kind of abstraction and progresses towards works that approach abstraction from a conceptual standpoint, dealing with its history or employing its visual conventions to signify ideas that are well beyond the realm of formalist concerns. The exhibition is divided into sections in which different works establish a dialogue amongst themselves and on abstraction in contemporary art practice accompanied by fragments of texts written by the artists or by other authors, which give us a complementary reading of the works.