KYLIE MANNING: THERE IS SOMETHING THAT STAYS

Pace is pleased to present There is something that stays, Kylie Manning’s first major solo exhibition in New York.

March 14 – April 19, 2025

For her debut with Pace in New York, where she has lived and worked for the last 20 years, Manning presents paintings forged in local minerals—tourmaline, calcite, and quartz—that pulse with the energy of the city and its people. In these works, she explores both personal and universal experiences of time, meditating on its rapidness and its inevitability. For the artist, this contemplation of time relates to her life as a new mother—particularly the ways that the brain is chemically changed during and after pregnancy.

Alchemical enactments of coming together and falling apart—moments of panic and precarity—are intensified in her new paintings, which seem poised on the edge of disintegration. This constant pushing and pulling of forms, a visual expression of a war of attrition against time, is especially evident in Manning’s figurations, which are simultaneously born from and washed away by abstraction. Her urgent, frenetic mark-making in these works reflects a slipping away of time—reinventing what draftsmanship can be, Manning fills her latest compositions with observations that break their own logic.

The exhibition’s title, There is something that stays, references a passage from a Jorge Luis Borges poem, capturing the tension between time’s inexorable march and the imprinted moments of stillness or rupture within it. The pieces in the show will leave viewers with transient memories—images that shift between fragments of ephemeral experiences—while also offering rare glimpses of serene moments that anchor us in the present.

“These works have a force, or an urgency, because time feels utterly predatory,” Manning says. “It’s not about the vanity of time, but the tragedy that those we cherish are fleeting.”