Curatorial statement Resistance and Myth

 

Resistance and Myth is a collective exploration of myth

as both weapon and refuge.

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Throughout history, myth has been wielded to consolidate power: shaping identity, rewriting history, and enforcing obedience through grand narratives, propaganda, and the seduction of the “official” story. In today’s endless churn of short-form video and curated feeds, our attention spans fracture, making it easier for authoritarian myths to slip into the collective psyche unnoticed. Yet myth also contains its own antidote: the capacity to ignite rebellion, to expose imposed realities, and to galvanize the imagination into acts of reinvention. This exhibition presents artists who operate in that charged space.

 

Accra Shepp’s Gunners harness formal technique and temporal tension to strip cultural filters from the narrative of contemporary gun ownership, using photography itself to dismantle myths of identity, fear, and power. Laurie Lipton’s meticulous draughtsmanship conjures graphite visions that reveal the hidden machinery beneath contemporary politics. Judy Greenberg’s intuitive, surrealist collages depict distorted Faces shaped by personal and political narratives unobstructed by societal expectation or individual censorship, and Peter Kennard’s uncompromising photomontages strip propaganda’s veneer to its raw violence.

 

Collectively, their work confronts the authoritarian gaze with visual counter-narratives, derail prescribed thought with unexpected forms, and treat creative expression as a battalion for freedom. Their work resists trend, breaks formation, and forges a mythology of liberation.

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