Lucian‘s solo show
October 7 – November 4, 2023
Exhibition Opening
October 7 | 6PM
Anima Art Space
2nd floor of 24 Chanca Building, Commonwealth Ave, Matandang Balara, Quezon City
Lucian’s bold and emotive creations delve into the propulsions of these biopolitical anxieties, embodying the manner in which state authority and influence mold our physicality, perceptions, and determinations. With feverish brushwork, frenzied resin applications, and Frankensteinian manipulations of the human form, the artist offers an arresting and contemplative exploration of humanity’s predicament in the face of unavoidable and systemic existential crises.
Lucian’s subjects reveal the profound inception of the individual, igniting a powerful psychological and corporeal exchange between the observer, the observed, and their sameness: the conscious act of “casting off the shroud” evokes the artist’s autonomous decision of discarding protective layers of emotional and conceptual armors, which have been molded by the violent conditioning and programming of external authority. As these layers are shed, often painfully, a sacred vulnerability and primal purity are finally laid bare.
(John Alexis Balaguer)
