Loy Luo Space

The Myth Hidden in the Body

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"This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."

--Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.

 

Most of the myths we read as children are related to the body. Animals, Humans, Gods, Ghosts, and AI naturally use similar bodies. Why do myths rely on body narratives so much?

 

The works of artist Geovanni Pesantez seem blessed by some mysterious power. His brush is obsessed with the body, but it is not the lustful part of the body, but the power part. The more primitive and destructive bodies of animals are entangled in the human body. For example, snakes and characters are in a mutually devouring relationship, just like the body and darkness are in a mutually devouring relationship. His circular composition contributes to this sense of change in the mutual entanglement and transformation. Unlike the yin and yang interaction of the Eastern Tai Chi diagram, which has nothing to do with emotions, Geovanni's circular interaction produces a black magnetic field, desperate and overbearing. The group exhibition "Body Theater-Mythology" is the first significant exhibition the artist has participated in since moving from South America to New York. 

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David Sloan's "Two Lovers: A Love Letter To My Wife" ultimately suggests that love and connection transcend the ordinary and invite viewers into a realm of magic and possibility. Ivan Klymenko's vast green park creates a surreal alienation, as if the viewer has stumbled into a god's private garden. Loy Luo's method separates the background from the subject, trying to create a sense of absurdity similar to the myth of Sisyphus(Camus). Mark Stafford explores the connections between consciousness and the cosmos and uses the discipline of art to interject in this conversation, which physicists and spiritualists typically dominate. Saba EbrahimPour's Madonna series uses contrasts that reflect abundance and depletion. Mark Hopkins use his illustrations to tell the old myth of Apple.

 

For thousands of years, humans have grown up with various myths: beauty, victory, love, justice, freedom, fairness, utopia, success, and superintelligence. It seems like these myths are still hidden in different kinds of bodies. Perhaps all the miracles of human development ultimately require the body to bear or reflect the body's progressive desire.

 

Loy Luo