This exhibition wants to spirit you away

Carolina Wheat wanted to explore the world of “unknown forces, chance encounters, happenstance, and serendipity” in her new exhibition. Things that “strike when one is open to it”, says the American curator. “Allowing our spirits to be moved is an acceptance of the unknown.” Wheat set about assembling a group of 18 artists whose work she felt kindled an openness to the spiritual at the contemporary art gallery and curatorial project Elijah Wheat Showroom, which she runs with the artist Liz Nielsen. The resulting exhibition, titled When the Spirit Moves You, opens this month at the Geary Contemporary Gallery in New York’s Hudson Valley, in a newly opened space upstairs.