HORROR VACUI
TWO-MAN show Featuring
PAOLO TORRES and words of Ray Santiago
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Horror Vacui, Latin for the “fear of empty spaces,” is a collaborative exhibit featuring paintings by Paolo Torres and poems by Ray Santiago.
Paolo Torres’ mixed media artworks showcase brooding torsos; decapitated; riddled with stains and scribbles to emulate emotions like emptiness and uncertainty. These cartoonish figures bare incompleteness, alluding to the strength in vulnerability, as packaged in the artist’s rough and intricate style.
Ray Santiago’s poetry project confronts the manifestations of this anxiety and attempts to escape the void through indulgence in anarchy. The poems depict a voice that is in recollection – a carousel of memories that, at its core, bear a scathing poignance of loneliness. The frenetic phrasing, pulse, and beat search for a bloated definition of loss.
More than allowing Horror Vacui to consume us, the pieces aim to soothe and fill the emptiness of the vulnerable.
