Psychic Reality

Bellwether Gallerz
January 26-February 25, 2006
January 28th at 6pm, screening: Zoe Beloff's "Charming Augustine," a 3-D film

Zoe Beloff
Cynthia Chan
Devon Costello
Justin Craun
Gregory Edwards
Jill Hubley
Timothy Marvel Hull
Mïrka Lugosi
Justin Samson & Aisling Hamrogue
Sara VanDerBeek
Johannes VanDerBeek


“The truth that the artist is after is primarily psychic truth. And it is Freud, of course, who has taught us the importance of psychic reality.”i

“Psychoanalysis as a treatment originated in the idea that neurosis is related to the ways in which individual psychic reality departs from actuality. Psychic reality includes memories, beliefs, and their associated affects and fantasies connected with an individual’s experience of the inner and outer world.”ii


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Mïrka Lugosi’s drawings are self-portraits in erotic situations. She explores dark eroticism in relation to fear and death from the perspective of Georges Bataille. Mïrka uses her fears to begin the stories she relates; for instance, the dog is a motif presented simultaneously as lover and threat, treading the balance between attraction and mistrust, becoming simultaneously familiar and uncanny or unheimlich. Mïrka develops her work piece by piece like a puzzle, but the game never ends and mystery persists because her subjects are always open. Her work is articulating itself around a kind of images’ psychanalise in which images are presented not like material reality but always like a mysterious but tangible proposition. Mïrka Lugosi lives and works lives and works at Clamart (Paris). In addition to making small drawings on paper, Mïrka also uses gouache, watercolor, ink on photographs, and film.

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