Curt LeMieux & Marley Van Peebles
Why Bodies Bend
Curt LeMieux & Marley Van Peebles
In this installation of soft-sculptures depicting anthropomorphic persons enacting exaggerated gestures, the artists create a set of human-like forms that push and pull figuration in unexpected directions, prodding the depths of corporeal experience, creating expressive bodies in motion. The entities are quirky and offbeat. They occupy a physical space transformed by queer activism and culture, the city of West Hollywood. They posit distorted and awkward appearances. From this twisted perspective, they sit in full confidence and strength, voicing all of who they are.
Curt LeMieux’s approach to art making is rooted in experimentation with process and materials. His practice involves a range of visual disciplines, and he is best known for creating works that suggest a tension between fragility and strength; they are at once ephemeral yet anchored with a sense of permanence.
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Van Peebles uses found objects to create what he calls “flat objects.” Using common domestic items, such as discarded food packaging and clothing. His art is directly linked to his everyday actions, and the spiritual or instinctual place without theoretical grounding. Van Peebles graduated from Parsons School of Design, The New School, in 2020.