From Leviathan With Love stages an encounter inside the gut of the beast—an allegorical descent through consumption, intimacy, and annihilation. Drawing from the biblical myth of Jonah, Melville’s Moby-Dick, Collodi’s Pinocchio, and the recursive hellmouth of Final Fantasy X’s Sin, the exhibition reimagines Leviathan not as creature but as system: a vast digestive intelligence, an engine of incorporation. The exhibition renders a love story between Death (Samael) and the Abyss (Leviathan), in which the gift is a body, and the offering is devoured. The work meditates on consumption as an existential condition—nutritional, economic, spiritual—wherein even resistance becomes resource.

Here, Leviathan mirrors the logics of exploitative systems: structures that arrest the body not to destroy it, but to preserve it long enough to harvest what remains. Within the folds of the beast, comfort becomes architecture—warm, enclosing, and anesthetic. The alternative, an ocean of indeterminacy, promises no refuge. The work lingers in this tension: between being held and being consumed, between soft captivity and the terror of release.
In collaboration with Jay Brunson