EN ROUTE:

PERPETUAL MOTION

This online exhibition explores movement as a conceptual and emotional force within contemporary visual practice. Moving beyond the literal depiction of travel, the exhibition considers rhythm, gesture, repetition and rupture as a language in themselves, one capable of conveying transition, memory, displacement and desire. Here, motion becomes more than a visual element. It operates as process, body, perception and inquiry simultaneously.

Following an international open call, Ambrose Creatives and The Ambrosia Journal received submissions from artists globally, from which a carefully curated selection has been brought together across three parts. The journey begins in abstraction, where rhythmic forms and color breathe with growth and transformation, moves through looping, handmade animations that hold a single moment in endless return, and arrives at figurative imagery of staircases, boats, runners and distant memories, where movement takes on a nostalgic, bittersweet tone. Through painting, collage, printmaking, video and mixed media, the featured artists show motion as both subject and method, whether meditative or restless, intimate or geopolitical, physical or psychological.

Across these approaches, the exhibition reveals movement as a condition that shapes identity, reorders memory and lets us sense what lies between departure and arrival. Together, the works invite viewers into spaces of instability, adaptation and connection, a collective reflection on how we carry ourselves through shifting landscapes.

How do we make visible what is always in transit, and what does it reveal about the act of making, and of becoming, to move without necessarily arriving?

Curatorial Statement

For every exhibition, Ambrose Creatives treats the chosen theme as a form of research: an almost anthropological inquiry into human experience and states of being, with art as the lens. Each open call poses a question to artists around the world, and the works that return are less answers than observations, different ways of seeing the same condition. En Route: Perpetual Motion began with one of those questions.

The theme may not be immediate. It asks the viewer to pause and consider what it really means to be en route: in motion and in constant, almost non-stop movement. What does that state feel like? How does it change the way we see ourselves and the world around us? We live hectic lives, cross borders and time zones, change homes, works, languages and relationships. We are always in transition, big or small, external or internal, and so always in some form of transformation. But what is it, really, to be in transformation? And can something so fluid, so unfinished, be made visible?

The exhibition unfolds as a journey across three parts. Act of Becoming begins in abstraction, where rhythmic forms and color breathe with growth and transition. The Movement‍ ‍acts as a hinge: Cassady Moll's looping animations, built from handmade cyanotypes and risograph prints, capture figures and trees appearing, dissolving and returning. Arriving at (No) Destination is the most figurative room, where physical representations action without and end give movement a visible form.

What emerges across the exhibition room is a feeling that few might expect. This is perhaps the most melancholic and nostalgic exhibition in the series: a bittersweet longing for things that never happened, and the feeling of completing an act without knowing where it leads. It is fullness and nothingness at the same time. And perhaps the result of the act is not the point. In the middle lies the act itself, the transformation, the passage from one state to another, and that is where the meaning lives: in the stillness of the movement.

It feels fitting that the exhibition arrives in autumn, a season of transition and of looking back while moving forward. Viewers are invited to slow down, move through the parts at their own pace, and ask where they are en route to, and whether arrival is needed at all.

Beatrice Ramasauskaite, Founder & Curator, Ambrose Creatives

PART 1

Act of Becoming

Gail Rickards / Matthew Morpheus / Igor Revelis

Abstract forms, saturated colors and rhythmic motifs fill this section, each work pulsing with a quiet, almost meditative cadence. Yet nothing here is still. Shapes repeat, shift and layer, and as their rhythms unfold they begin to become something else: a landscape, a gesture, a sensation, a state of mind. Form is never fixed but always emerging, caught in the process of arriving at itself.

The five works are distinct in language, palette and temperament, but they share a pulse. Each breathes with life, carrying action, transition and growth within its surface. Repetition here is not mechanical; it is generative, a way of building momentum and letting meaning accumulate through motion. Movement is both the method and the subject, and the viewer is invited to move with it, to slow down, settle into the rhythm and watch transformation take place.

This room sets the tone for the exhibition: becoming is not a destination but a continuous act.

Gail Rickards, NOVEMBER, 2025

Acrylic and metallic paint on canvas; 60 × 76 cm
Matthew Morpheus, Rainbow Symphony, 2013

Gel roll pen on paper; 56 х 76 сm
Igor Revelis, That Holds Memory, 2026

Oil paint, spray paint on linen; 85.5 x 102 cm
Gail Rickards, BARKING AT THE WOODS, 2025

Acrylic on canvas; 60 × 76 cm
Matthew Morpheus, Wheel of Fortune, 2018

Gel roll pen on paper; 56 х 76 сm

PART 2

The Movement

Cassady Moll

Cassady Moll's three looping animations capture motion at its most distilled: a single moment, suspended and endlessly repeated. In two, trees sway in a continuous, wind-like rhythm. In the other, human figures move, collide and dissolve into nothingness, only to re-emerge from it and begin the same movement again. Their cycle has no beginning or end, only the constant passage between presence and disappearance.

The process behind each work makes this sense of motion tangible. The middle animation is built from 24 A5 cyanotypes, stitched together digitally into a continuous loop. The other two begin as digital video, broken down into 40 individual frames, risograph printed in Aqua and Fluorescent Pink, and reassembled into animation. Every second of movement is therefore the product of slow, handmade labor, and the pieces hold both the fluidity of the moving image and the physicality of the printed page.

Positioned between Act of Becoming and Arriving at (No) Destination, this part acts as a hinge. It carries the rhythm and process of the first room toward the more figurative, narrative imagery of the third, offering a glimpse of a moment in which form appears, disperses and returns, always in transit.

Cassady Moll, Storm Rolling In, Top Floor #1, 2026

Video; digital video broken down into 40 individual frames, risograph printed in Fluorescent Pink, stitched back together to make looping animation

Cassady Moll, Joining, 2026

Video; 24 A5 cyanotypes, stitched together digitally to make a looping animation

Cassady Moll, Storm Rolling In, Top Floor #2, 2026

Video; digital video broken down into 40 individual frames, risograph printed in Aqua, stitched back together to make looping animation

PART 3

Arriving at (No) Destination

Maria Burgaz / Sergi Ribot / Sarah Schembri (Quantum Visions) / Robert Müller / Jade Marra / Giorgio Cecatto

The most figurative of the three parts, this space gives movement a recognizable face. Dancing shoes, an endless staircase, a figure running toward light or perhaps toward nothingness, a boat at the edge of the world, collage figures on a motorcycle, a collage of distant memories and time: each image holds a moment of motion, and each leaves the question of arrival open. Are these journeys ending, beginning or simply continuing?

A bittersweet, nostalgic tone runs through the section. There is a longing for things that never happened, and the particular feeling of completing an act without knowing quite what it was leading to, or where. The staircase does not end. The boat does not land. The runner does not reach the horizon. These images carry a quiet melancholy, but also a strange tenderness, the sense that something meaningful has taken place even though nothing has been resolved.

Perhaps the result was never the point. What these works hold onto is the shift itself, the passage from one state to another, from here to there, from then to now. That crossing is where the feeling lives, and that feeling may be the whole point: to move, to change, and to remain en route.

Maria Burgaz, I Can’t Loose Time, 2021

Mixed media, canvas; 40 x 40 cm
Sergi Ribot, Sailors, 2023

Digital artwork; 4:5
Sarah Schembri (Quantum Visions), Future Memory, 2026

Digital collage; 21 × 28 cm
Robert Müller, Evening in Taipei, 2026

Mixed media collage on paper; 20 x 20 cm
Jade Marra, Baile (Dance), 2026

Oil on canvas; 60 x 60 cm
Giorgio Cecatto, Infinite Stair, 2026

Cyanotype on canvas, 45 × 60 cm

Step Inside the Exhibition

Enter the virtual gallery below and explore En Route: Perpetual Motion at your own pace. Move through the space, take in the works up close, and let the exhibition unfold as a journey from abstraction to arrival, or not.

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