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We rarely know what we want, our desires are opaque to us, but we know that art is a fiction that tells the truth and accumulates its deadly charge through history, cannibalizing older works of art and birthing forth new ones.
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In Lizzy Lunday’s new body of work, we encounter figures and compositions that lightly evoke a range of mythological and religious scenes from the history of art.
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Her paintings retain the density of these references, but issues new visions from them, shot through with her characteristically oneiric, tastefully perverse visuals.
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In Lunday’s works (as in life), intimacy operates throughout as a problem of definition rather than as a describable fact.
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