Emily Noelle Lambert "Little Deaths"
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
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Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Little Deaths, marking Emily Noelle Lambert’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Lambert’s new paintings and mixed media sculptures intuitively explore her personal experiences by extracting them, both consciously and subconsciously, from a visual language of impressions, recollections and desires.
Lambert draws on imagery and observations that resonated with her during a recent visit to Rome—focusing on primal objects and emblematic figurines placed in her own imaginary “collections” that become Lambert’s individual versions of the alabaster busts she encountered in The Hall of Busts at the Vatican. Little Deaths alludes to the artifacts as symbols of our collective unconscious, while also implying, as the original French phrase “la petite mort” suggests, a metaphor for sexual climax. A nude body reclined and draped over a heap of skulls synonymously connotes both post-orgasmic pleasure and the stillness of death. Analogously, a totemic sculpture made out of mundane and recycled materials and a life-like bust evoke and intimate the characteristics of a shrine or altar commemorating Lambert’s personal history.
With her bold brushstrokes and raw sculptures, Lambert engages her audience with a seemingly primordial dilemma—that only by decidedly accepting mortality and death, can we enter into a new phase of growth and creation, consequently raising one of the most principal questions of humanity—whether we, as humans, rather live to die or die to live every day of our existence.
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Schedule
from November 05, 2009 to January 02, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-11-05 from 18:00 to 21:00