In the Valley of the Moon

In 2018, surrealist artist Hannah Yata stretched a canvas six feet square and filled every inch of it with a riot of living things. "In the Valley of the Moon" is an Eden, a luminous moon-mother presiding over an ecosystem in full bloom, with fish-eyed maidens, orchids, wings, and water all tangled into one breathing web. Yata paints the wildness of nature and the feminine as the same untamed force, and this is that idea at its most rapturous: paradise not as stillness, but as appetite. A painting conceived at the scale of a wall, now concentrated into a 2,000mg 24-karat golden Aurum canvas for the first time.