Bosco Sodi: Spheres and Sack paintings

Installed in Karnak’s industrial column hall is a selection of large clay spheres that the artist refers to as “perfect bodies”, which are mysteriously dispersed throughout the room alongside the site’s permanent installation of Dvaravati Buddha statues. Each sphere is handmade and baked in a rustic kiln, creating unique and unpredictable results. The exhibition features a series of “Sun Paintings” that Sodi made during the pandemic in his studio in Puerto Escondido, Mexico painted on found burlap sacks that were used to transport chili pepper.

The eight sack paintings are dispersed throughout Karnak but cannot be glimpsed in their entirety from a single vantage point. Hidden behind the pillars, visitors may achieve a partial glimpse of the whole, step-by-step discovering the incidental patterns of the spheres and painted dots. Both sculptures and paintings relate to one another, while their rhythm and ratio seemingly hold a hidden code or language long gone.