Threshold Speech, the title of Nathlie Provosty’s new exhibition, is a phrase taken from poet Paul Celan. It references the limitations of communicating that which exists outside of language. In an attempt to build a vocabulary for the unspeakable, Celan created a poetics of the “counter word” that upended linguistic conventions. Similarly, Provosty’s approach to abstraction subverts the dominant draconian demands placed on our attention. Through subtlety, sensuality, and a pictorial language that eludes, betrays, and rewards, the paintings act as receptacles of alternative communication systems.