Incomplete metamorphosis...
6:15 p.m.
15/12/22 - The works of David Altmejd (Canada, 1974) are fantastic. At White Cube, in London, he presents heads and busts that he composed from hybridizations between animals and humans. The result is surprising mix, an unfinished metamorphosis with shapes so exaggerated that they can even be considered elegant.
We cannot define what we are seeing and, as usual, our brain makes an effort to recognize the image and give it a name, classify it. But the figure challenges us, it even seems that these half-rabbits, straight out of Alice in Wonderland, look at us smiling with their glassy and red eyes.
David Altmejd
White Cube, London
The work located on the main floor of the gallery deserves a special mention: it's a being (again) somewhere between a hare and a human, sitting cross-legged as if practicing yoga, behind a small hole in the floor that resembles the entrance to a cave. The height of the ears of this character is such that it defies the limits between the floor and the ceiling, deceiving us even more about this little man in full transformation.
The Vector, de David Altmejd (2022)
Materials: expanding foam, epoxy, acrylic, paint, resin, glass
Measures: 387 x 182 x 182 cm
Altmejd recreates these sculptures with preconceptions acquired through fantasy and mythological literature, where imagination gives birth to defined characters based on their physical characteristics and personality. For example, the hares or rabbits are considered tricksters in ancient stories from early Europe and in most children's stories, it was even represented (the rabbit) in an animated form in the West (Bugs Bunny) with these characteristics. However, the artist recognizes himself in these figures, increasing even more the halo of mystery and lack of definition that surrounds them.
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