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The Natal Lacuna

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b. 2001, United States
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Are there any safe spaces? A childhood home? A hospital? Inside the body? In the womb? In the sticky embrace of a spider’s web? Are we safe inside our memories? Inside imagination? Ophelia Arc takes us to these places. There is serenity there, with soft materials and a palette of subdued fleshy hues. But there is also a disquieting sense of peril. A kitchen iterates unstably, and a living room becomes claustrophobic with reduplicating sectional furniture. A Fisher-Price Dollhouse makes several cameos. It serves as a gestational prison; it appears trapped in a fibrous cage, gets ensnared in a web, and is severed apart only to be precariously re-bound by corset strings. Arc’s spaces are equally sites of repose and discomfort. We are caught in the transfixing dialectic of the beautiful and the abject. This is a world of ciphers, abounding with meaning but impossible to decisively decode.


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Installation View of "The Natal Lacuna"
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The Natal Lacuna

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Are there any safe spaces? A childhood home? A hospital? Inside the body? In the womb? In the sticky embrace of a spider’s web? Are we safe inside our memories? Inside imagination? Ophelia Arc takes us to these places. There is serenity there, with soft materials and a palette of subdued fleshy hues. But there is also a disquieting sense of peril. A kitchen iterates unstably, and a living room becomes claustrophobic with reduplicating sectional furniture. A Fisher-Price Dollhouse makes several cameos. It serves as a gestational prison; it appears trapped in a fibrous cage, gets ensnared in a web, and is severed apart only to be precariously re-bound by corset strings. Arc’s spaces are equally sites of repose and discomfort. We are caught in the transfixing dialectic of the beautiful and the abject. This is a world of ciphers, abounding with meaning but impossible to decisively decode.


Ophelia Arc’s work confronts us with the fragility of...More expand_more

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19 Henry St, New York, NY 10002, USA
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b. 2001, United States
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Jun 20, 2025 — Aug 02, 2025
D. D. D. D.New York, NY, US
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