Ophelia Arc
Born in 2001, New York
She lives and works in New York.
Ophelia Arc is a research-based multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Working across sculpture, video, and installation, Arc explores psychoanalytic themes rooted in personal experiences and memory. She earned her BFA from Hunter College and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Arc’s work has been featured in publications such as Artspiel, ArtNews, ArtNews China, Textiel Plus, Tique and Visionary Magazine. Her work is included in private collections and has been exhibited in galleries in New York and beyond, including 81 Leonard, Kates-Ferri Projects, No Gallery, Marinaro, and Collarworks. Arc’s solo show at Lyle’s & King opens June 26th in New York City. She held a solo exhibition in Tube Booth (project by Tube Culture Hall).
Ophelia Arc’s work confronts us with the fragility of embodiment. This is not the embodiment of dynamic athleticism and agency, it is an embodiment of viscera and flesh. Both dermal and subterranean, excavating the amorphous parts within. The surfaces are scratched and bloodied, marked by tattoos that serve here as the scars of memory. There are sores, sutures, and lesions, and bandages on scarred knees, reflecting the wounds of childhood. We peer into the artist’s mouth and encounter unnamable organs.There are allusions to medical realms that promise little hope of cure. There are umbilical cords that simultaneously nourish and bind.
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