Mythic Origins brings together artworks which touch on myth and archetypal images in a time of deep uncertainty. The exhibition is focused on artists who make use of fables, allegories and their associations to realise internal journeys of discovery. Often what they evolve becomes a method for themselves to negotiate the alienating world of social constriction and control. In this way, critical issues of identity, autonomy, citizenship and agency come into play. By turning their attention to the creation that is enacted through theirselves, they realize works of art which reach past their conditions to seek new and fruitful possibilities of transformation. Full of esoteric pondering, these artist prophets create images which emote archetypal energy, an art that culls from the ancient past to imagine a liberated future. In conversation, these voices become a community of recalcitrance, insolent to the forces of capitol and insistent on the liberating potential of expression.
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