Noctis Imago: Group Exhibition

Jorge Camacho
Ánima Correa
Victor Estrada
Max Hooper Schneider
Jeffrey Meris
Berenice Olmedo
Reginald Sylvester II

Across a breadth of modes and media, Noctis Imago considers six artists’ critiques, extrapolations, and expansive reimaginations of the meeting points between bodies and the systems and institutions that orient them. Prominent within each artist’s work are hybridic or mythological metaphors for the often self-contradictory facets of embodiment in society. Chimeras, biomechanical forms, dizzying parallax views, and impossible, recombinative landscapes become ways to imagine and interface these double conditions. With inventiveness and clarity, these artists reflect on the political and epistemic systems whose reach continues to color and complicate perspectives on the body: medicalism, biopolitics and philosophies of science, bureaucracy, geographical borders, certain art histories, and colonialism to name a few.