Jai Raphael's "Abyss."
Currently on view until February 20th, 2022 at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is artist Jai Raphael's solo exhibition, "Abyss."
Jai Raphael is a self-taught artist, predominantly learning through trial and error. In 2013 he began painting with close friend and artist Fergus Dupleix, and this was Raphael’s first step of a journey to pursue painting with a view towards one day exhibiting his works. Dupleix was an integral figure in Raphael’s development and helped to open the door for his first group exhibition.
"As from the chrysalis to the emergence of the moth" explains Jai, "through the process of evolution, so, too, are these entities revealed within states of transmutation into a higher being.
The connectivity of body and soul are illuminated through an amalgamation of the flesh with vegetative, tenebrous roots. The beings depicted reside in a shadow landscape of sepulchral realms. Inspired by hallucinatory explorations, these paintings are musings into dark recesses of the unconscious and evolution through strife and grief."
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