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"The Sirens Will Sing Louder" brings together the most recent paintings and installations, in an exhibition curated by Miguel Von Hafe Pérez. In the paintings we enter an imaginary forest, peopled by chimeric figures that merge with and dissolve into other forms of life.
In images at once seductive and unsettling, the works explore the complexities of contemporary masculinities and call into question the traditional conventions of virility.
Drawing on mythology, art history and visual culture, they build narratives in which the male body asserts itself and intertwines with the animal and the vegetal. Like Endymion, plunged by Selene into an eternal sleep that preserves his youth and beauty, these figures inhabit a time apart, where it is always later than one thinks.
Suspended between attraction and threat, these figures evoke the fantasies conveyed by the pop imagery of social media, pornography and magazines such as Men’s Health.
Through layers of references to the history of images, both high and popular, an iconography of bodies in groups is woven. Arms flung into the air, bodies piling up into pyramids and turning into horses, processions recalling carnival, the parade or the village festival. These are moments of collective ecstasy, between celebration and ritual, in which a single being is also multiple, like votive offerings to someone whose identity remains unknown. The whole evokes the dream of another possible community, of a state of nature
that never existed, in which the human, the animal and the collective no longer have clear boundaries.
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"The Sirens Will Sing Louder" brings together the most recent paintings and installations, in an exhibition curated by Miguel Von Hafe Pérez. In the paintings we enter an imaginary forest, peopled by chimeric figures that merge with and dissolve into other forms of life.
In images at once seductive and unsettling, the works explore the complexities of contemporary masculinities and call into question the traditional conventions of virility.
Drawing on mythology, art history and visual culture, they build narratives in which the male body asserts itself and intertwines with the animal and the vegetal. Like Endymion, plunged by Selene into an eternal sleep that preserves his youth and beauty, these figures inhabit a time apart, where it is always later than one thinks.
Suspended between attraction and threat, these figures evoke the fantasies conveyed by the pop imagery of social media, pornography and magazines such as Men’s Health.
Through layers of references to the history of images, both high and popular, an iconography of bodies in groups is woven. Arms flung into the air, bodies piling up into pyramids and turning into horses, processions recalling carnival, the parade or the village festival. These are moments of collective ecstasy, between celebration and ritual, in which a single being is also multiple, like votive offerings to someone whose identity remains unknown. The whole evokes the dream of another possible community, of a state of nature
that never existed, in which the human, the animal and the collective no longer have clear boundaries.
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