Totem Body

Totem Body was an exhibition about rediscovering the animal in human nature and celebrating “creature consciousness”.

With fourteen other artists, we explored the primal power and totemic symbolism of our embodiment as a human animal using different mediums.

For Totem Body I was inspired by my personal and professional explorations of the theme of initiation and its connection to our identity and the idea of Self.

I considered the body as a space – a tangible and physical space, but also a symbolic and an invisible one. In the body, and through the body, we can recognise an emblem, indeed the totem through which we belong and connect to our origin. At the same time, this totem allows us to strive towards a becoming and a potentiality. In its spatiality, the body speaks about temporality as well – past, present and future, all condensed and expanded in one entity.

This exhibit took place at the Crypt Gallery in London in June 2011.

See the Crypt Gallery