On April 22nd, Roberts Projects in Los Angeles will open Love Story, an exhibition of paintings by Sydney-based artist, Mia Middleton. This exhibition will be her first showing with the gallery. On the occasion, Middleton wrote an essay on the works in the show, shared below. For the viewer, Middleton’s small-scale paintings capture a tension and threshold between conscious and subconscious, desire and aversion, reality, and fantasy. In these intimate freeze-frames, ephemeral moments are stripped of their context and suspended in time, intimating a narrative without creating one and inviting viewers into a psychological framework of uncertainty and discovery.