Luisen Zela-Koort
Worlds Without Fever (V: Eclosion) , 2025
Oil on cotton with transparent gesso
203 x 127 cm
79 7/8 x 50 in.
79 7/8 x 50 in.
Unique
Courtesy of the artist, Brooke Benington and N.A.S.A.L
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The Worlds without Fever series proposes fantastic, alien and organic landscapes, where different forms of life relate to each other and their surroundings. They propose sensual porosities, where the hegemonic...
The Worlds without Fever series proposes fantastic, alien and organic landscapes, where different forms of life relate to each other and their surroundings. They propose sensual porosities, where the hegemonic imprint of the Anthropocene is undone. The hermetic modern ego is displaced for open-ended beings that dissolve, caress, and blur their ontological limits. They are not in themselves, but with and for the world. Birthed from an exploration that seeks to transcend viral binaries; culture/nature, self/surroundings, viral/infectious, oppositional dynamics, where one body imposes its desire over another. On the contrary, here their forms delicately affect and seduce, harmonising, expanding as one. They inhabit a surreal and sci-fi visual framework, existing as much as aliens, or microorganisms, operating in a universe of scalar ambiguity. A micro-macro-cosmic collapse. Formally, they draw bridges between a language of scientific illustration and a concrete psychedelia, imagining new bodily possibilities at a fundamental level. Inspired by living with chronic illness, they reopen the channel between our individual existences and the Universe, in search of profound connections and kinship with the non-human.
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