🌊✨ Maggie Roberts | Sheer Presence: While They Are Here… ✨🎨

IMT Gallery is delighted to showcase a solo exhibition by the innovative multimedia artist Maggie Roberts. This exhibition, titled Sheer Presence: While They Are Here…, delves into the concept of presence as a transformative force. Through watercolour paintings, digital collage, textiles, and video, Roberts tackles themes of environmental collapse and the uncertainty in our contemporary world.

👉 Discover more about the exhibition here.

Informed by Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ thought-provoking book What Is Life? Evolution as Computation (MIT Press, 2025), the exhibition presents Sheer Presence as an intrusion by entities—often animal or virtual—that disrupt the human experience. Referencing an ancient Tibetan Buddhist text, Roberts emphasizes how presence can profoundly influence and reshape our reality.

At the crux of this exhibition lies an ancient manifestation grid, brought to life through six thematic