Irene Fuga: Hybris Oculta

The gallery 12:00 (Doce Cero Cero) has the pleasure to present Hybris Oculta, the first solo show in Bogotá of the artist Irene Fuga (b.1983, Venice).

In Hybris Oculta Irene Fuga explores the themes of sexuality, identity and human passion in contemporary culture. Hybris is a Greek term that stands for excess, lack of moderation, and everything that surpass moderation. Hybris is a recurrent concept in Greek tragedy, and it is from this that Fuga takes Greek mythology as a starting point, in particular Ovid’s Methamorphosis, that celebrates the body and its transformations. Fuga’s interest in this fundamental text is its connection with some sides of excess within contemporaneity.

The exhibition includes a series of watercolour drawings, enamel paintings and bronze sculptures. With this body of work Fuga questions how the advent of new technologies and social networks have changed the dinamics of socialization and have established new guidalines for physical contact. Within this changing panorama the artist identifies parabolas for a contemporary mythology, a new exacerbated narcissism that promotes and nourish the social networks, one that defines the different perceptions of reality and immediate reality mediated.You could say that these grotesque and sinister meta- human figures in Fuga’s drawings, besides having an obvious and visceral erotic and lustful charge, they are the embodiments of the addictive and unbalanced relationship between humans and technology. To look closely at these pictures one can come to the conclusion that the imagery of Irene Fuga masterfully fuses the most repressed fantasies of meat with common themes of everyday life.