Repast

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Altro Mondo

Repast

New works by DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz

In Repast, DengCoy Miel and Jose Tence Ruiz examine the present by skewering the past. Historical events cast a long shadow on grotesque silhouettes rendered in a raw, unsettling glory.

In Lord of the Onion Rings, Ruiz harkens back to Francis Bacon’s ghostly human forms, with a man whose face is obscured by violent brushstrokes and geometric shapes that aren’t where they’re supposed to be.

In Dengcoy Miel’s Peelings, WoHohoo, Peelings, a young boy cries as he chops onions. Taken at face value, the scene
is a mundane tableau–but given the state of the world as it is, with inflation at an all-time high and the looming threat
of recessions and climate disaster, it serves as a poignant metaphor for the current situation.

Taken as a whole, the works crackle with a frenetic energy and thick layers of meaning ripe for dissection and vivisection.
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Music: Belted Kingfisher by Chad Crouch

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