Between Rage and Serenity

Between Rage and Serenity is an ongoing body of work that explores the human figure as a site of pressure, memory, and presence. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the work considers how bodies—historical and contemporary—absorb, resist, and release the forces placed upon them.

Rooted in classical visual language yet firmly situated in the present, the exhibition brings contemporary bodies into dialogue with inherited forms. Rather than treating history as something fixed or distant, the work approaches it as a living aesthetic system—one capable of expansion, re-inhabitation, and renewal. The figure is not presented as symbol or narrative device, but as structure: weight-bearing, vulnerable, resilient.

Throughout the exhibition, moments of intensity are paired with moments of stillness. Dense, charged works give way to quieter passages; abstraction functions as breath, pause, and release. This rhythm—between tension and calm—shapes the experience of the space, allowing the viewer to move through states rather than scenes.

The African Diaspora Bronze works emerge within this framework as acts of continuity rather than interruption. They inhabit classical form without irony, asserting presence through reverence, balance, and physical authority. Alongside them, graphite drawings, digital works, and abstract compositions extend the conversation across material and scale, reinforcing the body as both subject and architecture.

Between Rage and Serenity is not organized around resolution, but around coexistence. Strength and fragility, history and immediacy, pressure and release are held simultaneously. The exhibition invites sustained looking—not toward answers, but toward alignment.

The conceptual origins of this body of work are traced in a journal entry written during a summer visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.