Almine Rech New York presents Love of waters, Haley Josephs’ third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first with Almine Rech in the United States. Featuring a new body of paintings, the exhibition explores water as both a physical substance and a poetic metaphor, reflecting on its capacity to connect memory, emotion, and the cycles of human existence. Josephs transforms rivers, oceans, and luminous surfaces into spaces where the personal and the universal converge, inviting viewers into dreamlike worlds suspended between reality and imagination.

Working with richly symbolic imagery and a vibrant palette, Josephs constructs enigmatic landscapes inhabited by solitary figures whose presence evokes themes of transformation, vulnerability, and renewal. Throughout the exhibition, water becomes a recurring motif that absorbs traces of human experience—from tears and sweat to light and reflection—suggesting an elemental force that gathers individual lives into a shared, collective narrative. Her paintings balance intimacy and mystery, combining psychological depth with an atmosphere that is at once serene and unsettling.

Love of waters continues Josephs’ exploration of the emotional and spiritual dimensions of painting, expanding her longstanding interest in mortality, femininity, and the unconscious. Blurring the boundaries between the natural world and inner experience, the exhibition offers a meditation on the interconnectedness of all living things and on water as a symbol of continuity, transformation, and hope. Through this new series, Josephs reaffirms painting’s ability to translate intangible sensations into evocative visual narratives.