THE (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE arises from the pure and immediate collision of body and mind.
In this reflex zone, sensation precedes words and the intellect loses its role as mediator. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” warned Dante at the gates of Hell. Here, it is artifice that we must renounce.
In this reflex zone, sensation precedes words and the intellect loses its role as mediator. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here,” warned Dante at the gates of Hell. Here, it is artifice that we must renounce.
At first glance seemingly opposed, Mire Lee's solo exhibition and the collection focus devoted to Pipilotti Rist occupy the two poles of the same interior space. On the left, the body exposed to its cycles, tensions, and exhaustion; on the right, the mind given over to its affective, psychedelic, and emotional excesses. Or perhaps it is the other way around? From one space to the next, sensation drifts, thought takes shape. The works offer neither key nor comfort: emotion surfaces, raw, immediate, with no hierarchy between pleasure and pain, externalization and introspection.
For us, abandoning all artifice does not only require stepping through the doors of exhibitions. It means laying down our defenses and habits of rationalization in order to allow ourselves to be inhabited by sensations. Fear, melancholy, desire, euphoria, excitement, and disgust sometimes arise simultaneously to awaken the stories that each of us already carries within us. What is exposed here without modesty is reflected back: the works are imprinted on the body and mind, transforming contemplation into a frank and instinctive experience.
On the left :
Mire Lee. THE (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE
On the right :
Pipilotti Rist (IAC collection). THE (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE
For us, abandoning all artifice does not only require stepping through the doors of exhibitions. It means laying down our defenses and habits of rationalization in order to allow ourselves to be inhabited by sensations. Fear, melancholy, desire, euphoria, excitement, and disgust sometimes arise simultaneously to awaken the stories that each of us already carries within us. What is exposed here without modesty is reflected back: the works are imprinted on the body and mind, transforming contemplation into a frank and instinctive experience.
On the left :
Mire Lee. THE (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE
On the right :
Pipilotti Rist (IAC collection). THE (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE
