loculos Timoris
LOCULOS TIMORIS
In Loculos Timoris - Latin for "pockets of fear" - Texas-born, Germany-based artist Kathryn Gohmert explores what it means to live courageously in a world increasingly governed by anxiety and division. Through this focused series of paintings, she investigates the mental landscapes we inhabit when navigating fear, and what it takes to carve out empathy, curiosity, and connection amid disorientation.
Drawing from research in cognitive science and her own experiences with temporary blindness, Gohmert offers a visual meditation on how fear warps perception - how the brain prioritizes threat, clings to division, and struggles to decipher what is truly real. Yet within this tension lies the exquisite potential to choose another way.
LOCULOS TIMORIS ran at Ro2 Art Dallas July 12 - August 30, 2025.
Symbols create their own code as they point out roots and causes, mimicking the brain's own process of sense-making on canvas.
These works hold space for both the vulnerability of sensing and the resilience of meaning-making. Diagrams of survival trace new neural pathways toward imagination and intentional connection in a culture that rewards suspicion.
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Film 3 and 4, 2025
50 x 50 cm | 20 x 20 cm
oil stick, graphite, oil and sewn textile on canvas
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Gohmert's paintings function as studies of the stimuli by which we experience the world, stripping complex neurological processes to their essential components.
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 1), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 2), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 4), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 5), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 6), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Loculos Timoris (Untitled 13), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
(Dark) Lightness (2025)
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