-
Why is there nothing here when there should be something? The unseeing eyes of the dead; the bewildered eyes of an amnesiac?
MUSCA DEPICTA is derived from representations of insects in 17th Century European painting as religiously‐charged symbols of the soul and ephemeral life or carrying connotations of sin, corruption or mortality— appearing in religious texts and paintings of biblical scenes. Alternatively, the depiction of a fly on a portrait indicated that the portrait is post mortem. This body of work revolves around orifices, decomposition and infestation. Using painting, taxidermy and actively decaying specimens, the work captures the ephermerality of decay and metamorphosis and explores the in-between states within the dichotomy of life and death. The religious context of musca depicta is subverted, using arthropods and fragmented organic matter to embody the absurd, surreal and mundane. As a queer artist, I resonate with the grotesque and abject, and in this body of work, implement it in reprisal to the narratives of queer repression by religious institutions and reactionary rhetoric.
gallery
Iasc, 2024,
Oil on Canvas, 42 x 35 cm
Teánga Bhó, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 22 x 32.5 cm
Drúchtín, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 44 x 32 cm
Cuil, 2024, Oil on Canvas32.5 x 22 cm
Madra Rua, 2024, Found textiles, fox taxidermy, 150 cm x 100 cm
Féach, 2024, 100 Glass jars, pigs’ eyeballs, 200 cm x 200 cm
Féach (detail)
Féach (detail)
Iasc agus Teanga, 2024, Dead fish, ox tongues, nails, 200 cm x 30 cm
Iasc agus Teanga (detail)
Iasc agus Teanga (detail)
Féach (detail)
Dissection, 2024, Video Installation
Exhibition
Exhibition
Exhibition
×
contact
instagram: eabhacampbellartist / vampyr.bat
e-mail: eabhacampbellartist@gmail.com