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Are there any safe spaces? A childhood home? A hospital? Inside the body? In the womb? In the sticky embrace of a spider’s web? Are we safe inside our memories? Inside imagination? Ophelia Arc takes us to these places. There is serenity there, with soft materials and a palette of subdued fleshy hues. But there is also a disquieting sense of peril. A kitchen iterates unstably, and a living room becomes claustrophobic with reduplicating sectional furniture. A Fisher-Price Dollhouse makes several cameos. It serves as a gestational prison; it appears trapped in a fibrous cage, gets ensnared in a web, and is severed apart only to be precariously re-bound by corset strings. Arc’s spaces are equally sites of repose and discomfort. We are caught in the transfixing dialectic of the beautiful and the abject. This is a world of ciphers, abounding with meaning but impossible to decisively decode.
Ophelia Arc’s work confronts us with the fragility of embodiment. This is not the embodiment of…
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Are there any safe spaces? A childhood home? A hospital? Inside the body? In the womb? In the sticky embrace of a spider’s web? Are we safe inside our memories? Inside imagination? Ophelia Arc takes us to these places. There is serenity there, with soft materials and a palette of subdued fleshy hues. But there is also a disquieting sense of peril. A kitchen iterates unstably, and a living room becomes claustrophobic with reduplicating sectional furniture. A Fisher-Price Dollhouse makes several cameos. It serves as a gestational prison; it appears trapped in a fibrous cage, gets ensnared in a web, and is severed apart only to be precariously re-bound by corset strings. Arc’s spaces are equally sites of repose and discomfort. We are caught in the transfixing dialectic of the beautiful and the abject. This is a world of ciphers, abounding with meaning but impossible to decisively decode.
Ophelia Arc’s work confronts us with the fragility of embodiment. This is not the embodiment of…
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