New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach is set to exhibit a selection of paintings at the contemporary art institution WIELS in Belgium, from March 22. Titled Tetrachromat (the same exhibition has been displayed in Norway and Sweden over the last couple of years), Auerbach will present her increasingly-well received fold paintings.

“The title of the exhibition plays on the notion of ‘tetrachromatic’ vision. People normally perceive the world around them trichromatically (in three colours). Humans have three types of receptor for the perception of colour with varying sensitivities: red, green and blue. A new theory exists that there may be a small percentage of people (only women) who have a fourth colour receptor, which makes them ‘tetrachromatic’. In order to play on such ideas of a fourth component which, if it could be proven, would radically change our view of the world, Auerbach employs two analogies in this exhibition – the spatial (the idea of a fourth dimension) and the spectral (a fourth colour spectrum).”

Jack Smylie