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SCALE

Magen H x Alexander May

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6–8 PM

September 11 – October 10, 2025

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Press Release

Magen H Gallery is pleased to announce Scale, a collaborative exhibition with Los Angeles–based artist and designer Alexander May, on view from September 11 to October 10, 2025.

Rooted in May’s sculptural and painterly background, SCALE is a meditation on how space influences perception. Drawing on his instinctive approach to composition, the exhibition favors mood, proportion, and atmosphere over traditional function, challenging how we engage with designed environments.

The installation brings together a tightly curated selection of primarily monochromatic works from the Magen H collection – rare and expressive examples of 20th-century French design. These pieces, drawn from utilitarian origins, are reimagined through May’s spatial eye and repositioned as expressive forms in their own right.
Presented within a restrained, all-white environment, SCALE invites visitors to slow down and enter a deliberate visual rhythm, one that foregrounds the silent relationship between object and architecture. As May notes in his exhibition statement:

“Scale is not a fixed measurement, but a connective force, a spatial language capable of linking disparate elements into coherent visual and emotional narratives. To consider scale is to consider how we see.”

For May, SCALE becomes a method of storytelling: shifting perception by collapsing distance, reframing context, and amplifying form. Objects are reoriented to explore balance, weight, and negative space. Furniture becomes sculpture. Familiar pieces act as thresholds: quiet transitions that transform how one navigates the room. Part installation and part spatial essay, SCALE oMers a new lens on interior design – less about utility, more about sensibility. It asks how we locate meaning not only in objects, but in their placement, proportion, and proximity to one another. This exhibition builds on May’s ongoing interest in the emotional logic of interiors, following his past interventions across domestic and institutional spaces. At Magen H, it becomes both a tribute and an experiment – a study in how design history can be reactivated through contemporary ways of seeing.

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