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    Phillips Los Angeles
    9041 Nemo St, West Hollywood
    CA 90069 (map)

  • VIEWING

    5 November - 17 December 2026
    Monday - Friday 10:00am - 3:00pm
    Or by appointment

  • CONTACT

    Blake Koh
    Regional Director, Los Angeles
    bkoh@phillips.com

Exhibition Highlights

Strange Magick by Natalie White is an exhibition of 15 large-format Polaroids presented in association with RK Art Advisory. Magick is not the opposite of science—it is what science feels like before it is explained. It is the moment a phenomenon is encountered before it is named, measured, or reduced to language. Light bending through glass, chemistry fixing an image to a surface, time compressing into form—these are not illusions, but precise interactions we have learned to describe. And yet, even in their accuracy, they retain a sense of awe. We call it science once we understand the mechanism; until then, it lives in the realm of magick—the space where wonder comes before certainty.

NATALIE WHITE Energy, 2022

Strange Magick extends this lineage through the use of the 20x24 Polaroid camera, a process that resists replication and demands presence. Each work is created in real time, without a reproducible negative, where timing, light, and human gesture converge in a single irreversible act. The image does not wait—it arrives. It declares itself all at once, emerging from a convergence of forces that cannot be fully rehearsed or repeated.

NATALIE WHITE Frequency, 2022

The introduction of double exposure further destabilizes control, allowing multiple moments to occupy the same space, collapsing time into a single image. To double expose is not to duplicate, but to invite interference—to allow one gesture to pass through another, one presence to echo inside the next. What results is neither fully controlled nor entirely accidental, but something in between: a collaboration with the unknown.

NATALIE WHITE Vibration, 2022

In this way, magick is not a departure from natural law, but an encounter with it at its most mysterious. These works do not reside within the boundaries of science—they illuminate the depth of its mystery. They ask us to consider that what we understand and what we experience are not always the same thing. And in that gap—in that shimmering space between knowledge and perception— lives a strange magick. 

NATALIE WHITE I do not have a physical body yet I am writing this book, 2022

The works in Los Angeles will be shown alongside an original short film directly by Karla Braun and conceived by Kolosky as an integral part of the exhibition. Featuring White in her studio, the film offers an intimate look at her creative process.

Watch the full video here.

NATALIE WHITE Time Dilations, 2022

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