ELIO SANCIOLO' MYTHOS EXHIBITION'

Mythos. An exhibition by Elio Sanciolo. Introduction Ever since we as humans developed a sense of ourselves as rational creatures with a need to understand our purpose and individual and collective place in relation to the world, we have wondered about the nature of existence and how things came to be as they are. Our individual and collective life experiences inform us about what we can actually know about the world in detail at any particular moment in time, but there are things beyond our direct perception due to the innate limitations of our senses, that we can never fully understand, or know at all with any certainty. The indistinct, and mysterious void that exists between our certainty about the world and what we can only infer about the world indirectly is the domain of myth and religion, and it is this nebulous area that I chose to explore for this last of a series of exhibitions dealing with time, perception, and memory. In this instance, cultural memory. As was the case in the previous two exhibitions (‘Future Memories’ and ‘Opus’) , I was not concerned so much with exploring what we see, but rather how we perceive, recall, and construct our experiences of the world, through the filter of culture, time, and memory. In order to do this, I looked at narratives and characters taken from the products of our collective cultural memory as memorialized in myth as a source of compositional inspiration. Hence the name and theme of this exhibition.