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Follow on Google News | Extinction and Survival: Animal Imagery and Human ArtAgata Ren's new artwork on view at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach and Continuum WPB Arts
By: agata ren • visual artist corporeality-- before us, and it is the dignity of that image, its impression on us, which will survive. Human art—painting, sculpture—has long been the medium used to insure that the phantoms of the dead will survive, as images. The image takes on a life of its own, charged as it is with human memory and pathos. The extinct animal, in Ren’s art, is given a new and future presence, but one which is strangely contrasted with a surrounding background collage, torn from fashion magazines, of human vanity and narcissism. It is as if the animal’s Life, soon to be extinguished, is exalted in its glossy image, while the fade of tinsel and glamour—our contemporary western human aspirations— destined to decry its animal cousins through the worship of surfaces? Is Ren hoping to exorcise the animal soul to insure the reincarnation of each species she depicts? These are paintings that exist in the crossroads where the human and animal no longer cohabitate. The memory of the animal is offered to our gaze, along with the reflection of our own selves—purveyors of a human society that flees the animal within us. End
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