Landscapes [of] People

Painting, drawing, mixed media, collage

Lellos Art Point is pleased to present six artists all of which focus their work on the human body and/or nature. We aim at triggering the viewers’ curiosity, making them ask questions about the relationship between the human body and landscapes of nature. Can a human's body be seen as a landscape and vice versa?

Political ecologist Jane Bennet reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. In [psychiatrist and psychotherapist] Carl Jung’s words: ‘(…) water is the commonest symbol of the unconscious’. Elements of nature reflect on the human psyche, confining the two into an unbreakable bond. Sometimes they reflect the material body - those words then easily resonate with certain myths and folktales, in the likes of the Norse Creation myth:

Bones become rocky outcroppings.
Teeth become gravel and boulders.
Flesh becomes the earth.
Blood becomes the sea.

The Aboriginal people of Australia believed that the bodies of ancestral animals and people who turned to stone by the end of Dreamtime became the boulders, hills, caves, lakes and other distinctive landforms in their area. It is a way of connecting themselves to the land they live in and of expressing that feeling of connectedness in the stories they tell about themselves.

While Melanie Christou is humouring us with her surreal humanscapes urging us to see the world from a completely different angle, through this set of artworks Julie Menelaou discovers the fluidity of her line and the similarity of colour and shape between the human and natural element. Aristos Christoforou is altering realism by changing the standardised flesh palette, capturing movement in a static moment, making us perceive the human body in a completely different way. Martha Elisabeth Landa is commenting on digitisation and the technological revolution that is changing the whole of the globe, and Alessandra Desole is taking us on a journey of self-discovery through her intense bodyscapes. Kiara Timms is examining the psychology of colour specifically concentrating on the effect the colour blue has on people living near the seaside.

Opening on Friday, 12th of December at 19:30

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