FORCES approaches emotion as a physical event rather than an image to interpret or a story to decode. Feeling is shaped through pressure, gravity, friction, containment and release; each force is set into motion so that emotion takes on weight and duration. The works do not illustrate emotion. They create the conditions in which feeling forms.

Gever describes this as a physics of interconnection in which nothing occurs in isolation. A small shift in density sends a ripple across the void; a disturbance in one area affects the balance elsewhere. Black, or its inverted white, acts as an active field where tension accumulates and time seems to stretch.

The works are in conversation with Richard Serra. In the FORCES pieces, borders, rifts, densities and voids become emotional topologies, as weight moves through simulated matter and time in fluid fields held at the edge of equilibrium, almost balanced but not quite.

Not understanding.

Feeling.