‘Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.’ - Léopold Sédar Senghor
BODE @thestudio presents SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces, its inaugural group exhibition in Cape Town. SYMPTOM: Invisible Forces brings together works by ten standout artists, exploring surrealism as a living and spiritual reality in a contemporary African context. These artists do not perform surrealism, they manifest it, offering a vital transmutation of absurdity and dream into visibility. By communicating the tension between the mundane and the bizarre, each artist conjures figures between worlds, and explores memory and myth as living loci. They construct potent visual lexicons that refuse comfortability, expose the uncanny absurdity of systemic power, and entangle the individual and collective fates of the living and dead.
