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The river Lethe, in Greek Mythology, is one of three rivers that lead to the Underworld.1 Drinking from its waters induces forgetfulness – a ritual act transitioning mortals from the world of the living to the world of the dead, preparing them for reincarnation. It is a river of mythic passage, of alchemy.
The Underworld can be interpreted as both a physical and psychic realm: a realm of the subconscious, where symbols are conjured. Unfolding as a threshold between worlds, Alex Hamish Millar’s Descent of Apollo can be seen as a meditation on the unconscious, not just as a place or function of forgetting, but a space immanent to consciousness and alive with possibility. It is an exhibition of concealment, amnesia, and metamorphosis—a passage to the ‘underland’ of the soul.
Drawing from religious, mythological, and occult symbolism, Millar constructs assemblages that flicker between revelation and obscurity, presence and absence, memory and the unseen. His...More
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The river Lethe, in Greek Mythology, is one of three rivers that lead to the Underworld.1 Drinking from its waters induces forgetfulness – a ritual act transitioning mortals from the world of the living to the world of the dead, preparing them for reincarnation. It is a river of mythic passage, of alchemy.
The Underworld can be interpreted as both a physical and psychic realm: a realm of the subconscious, where symbols are conjured. Unfolding as a threshold between worlds, Alex Hamish Millar’s Descent of Apollo can be seen as a meditation on the unconscious, not just as a place or function of forgetting, but a space immanent to consciousness and alive with possibility. It is an exhibition of concealment, amnesia, and metamorphosis—a passage to the ‘underland’ of the soul.
Drawing from religious, mythological, and occult symbolism, Millar constructs assemblages that flicker between revelation and obscurity, presence and absence, memory and the unseen. His...More
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