Enantios (meaning opposite) is an exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Kara Lyons that employs the process of mirroring; the duplication of one ‘original’ form into its replica image via reflection. Processes involving duplication and reversal throw into question issues such as originality, authenticity, artifice, deception, corollary, opposition and conjoinment.
‘My work exploits the aesthetic and discursive usefulness of counterbalances (eg. contrasts, contradictions, opposites, paradoxes, asymmetry, ambiguity, duality, ambivalence), whilst exposing the masculine bias inherent in binary polarities’.
Kara develops spontaneous devices such as the drawn blot or 3D equivalent, the blob, to draw multiple associations such as bodily fluids, dark matter, organic growths, botanical references, the subterranean; which in turn, allude to phenomena associated with nature (and the feminine) in pre-classical mythologies and other female cultures. These forms have multiple references in nature such as; bones (the pelvis/skull), liquids, plant forms, creatures, reproductive organs.
Location: Gallery Frank, Ebor Studio, Littleborough, UK.
