Aryo Toh Djojo’s ‘Spectra’ Explores Multidimensional Reality Through Art, Sound & Atmosphere
Hosted by Perrotin Hong Kong, the exhibition features thermochromic paintings and unfolds like a meditative experience.
Summary
- Perrotin Hong Kong presents Aryo Toh Djojo’s latest exhibition,Spectra
- The show highlights new artworks, spanning thermochromic and abstract pieces explore hidden knowledge and inner consciousness
- The exhibition will run from May 24 through July 5, 2025
Opening today, Perrotin Hong Kong unveils Aryo Toh Djojo’s newest exhibition, Spectra. Shaped by temperature, sound and atmospheric conditions, the LA-based artist transforms traditional painting into an evolving sensory experience. His latest body of work explores the interplay between inner clarity and cosmic revelation, inviting viewers to engage with perception as a gateway to expanded consciousness. Toh Djojo believes everyone exists within a multidimensional reality, where meditation, hypnosis and altered states can reveal realms beyond ordinary vision. “Our mind and spirit are one with the cosmos. If we can tap into that, we can gain knowledge and answers of what lies beyond,” he reflects. This belief fuels his practice, where heat-reactive paintings pulse between visibility and obscurity, echoing the ever-shifting nature of truth and experience.
“Some situations are guided more by logic, some are more mystical. If we’re open to both, life becomes more interesting.”
At the heart of the exhibition are thermochromic paintings, which gradually reveal UFO-like forms as the temperature rises, reinforcing Toh Djojo’s fascination with extraterrestrial presence and hidden knowledge. His approach is rooted in both personal experience and artistic inquiry. Having witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena firsthand, he embraces the unknown with reverence and curiosity. The layered ambient soundscape, inspired by a workshop with Brian Eno, mirrors this indeterminate quality. Drone textures, field recordings and fragmented melodies play on looping tracks, each shifting independently, reflecting Toh Djojo’s belief that truth is a fluid interplay between logic and mysticism. “Some situations are guided more by logic, some are more mystical. If we’re open to both, life becomes more interesting,” he notes.
The journey through Spectra unfolds like a meditative experience, with transitional works offering moments of introspection and transformation. A sinewy candle flame burns with devotional intensity, while a serene blue Siddhartha head recalls Buddhist statuary, gesturing toward impermanence and self-discovery. Beyond these quiet moments, the second gallery erupts into highly detailed airbrush paintings, blending science fiction themes with spiritual mysticism. Toh Djojo’s compositions evoke otherworldly transmissions, from a six-fingered hand reaching outward to a nude spirit guide with a steady, searching gaze. Each image is a portal into alternative forms of knowing, resonating with Toh Djojo’s belief that empirical science and embodied intuition both contribute to our understanding of the universe.
“We’re all experiencing our own realities in a weird universal consciousness way.”
Ultimately, Spectra meditates on uncertainty, revelation and unseen dimensions, reflecting the artist’s conviction that reality is deeply personal yet universally interconnected. “We’re all experiencing our own realities in a weird universal consciousness way,” he suggests. The exhibition title itself speaks to this idea: color, sound and heat operate as frequencies within a broader spectrum, forming shifting, impermanent fields that hint at realms beyond human perception. Just as Toh Djojo’s thermochromic paintings transform with temperature, his artistic vision resists fixity, embracing experience as a fluid and ever-evolving phenomenon — whether encountered in meditation, mystery, or the fleeting glow of a distant spacecraft in the night sky.
His California roots also shape his artistic approach, where airbrushed surfaces and atmosphere-responsive materials evoke a sense of fluidity, movement and geographic influence. Ultimately, Spectra is less about delivering definitive answers and more about embracing uncertainty, inviting audiences to contemplate reality as a shifting phenomenon rather than a fixed truth.
Aryo Toh Djojo’s Spectra opens today and will remain on view until July 5, 2025.
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