Taming Mythological Creatures

ÈRRESH

While we grow older, the Childhood fades away. 

                          It slips through our fingers like sand. 

                                      To me, my Childhood is like an eternal dream that I keep having every night. 

Growing up as quite a closed child, whose reality was built mostly of fantasy and dreams, It never really left my body and mind, growing only stronger with every year passing. 

This body of work molds the long story of my personal research on Self-Identity and connection between my inner and outer world.

«My Parents Were the First Mythological Creatures I Met»  was the starting point of «Taming Mythological Creatures»,  telling a story of a child, whose identity was lost in between its Parents’ figures — full of riddles, that kept many answers, the keys to many doors inside the child itself. 

Continuing with «Ring the Bell»,  where a blurred face inside the Child’s Figure appears - Self-Identity starts to draw itself, later on exploring many parts of oneself - spirituality, roots, sexuality, gender, all the riddles inside it, the Child was tempted to solve. 

One of the main symbols in this story is a Mirror, which speaks quite straightforwardly — I want you to look inside yourself, through the mirror I give you. And I hope to see you there. May you find something new, or at least - inner peace. 

 ÈRRESH.                                                                                                                                  

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Taming Mythological Creatures is Erresh’s second solo exhibition and his first show at Airspace Projects Gallery. Comprised of oil paintings and ceramic sculptures layered with symbolism Erresh’s latest body of work interrogates the self.  Ethereal figures and curious fictional forms emerge speaking to the exploration of identity anchored in the formative years of childhood and consequent chapters. 

Erresh’s works are a fantastical portrayal of personal reflections on self-discovery.  Drawing on his deeply comforting connection to the natural world Erresh presents a composition of colours akin to a suspended dreamscape that exposes the calm and chaos of the psyche.  In articulating moments of reverie on canvas and clay, Erresh reveals a visual language that is true to his personhood and artistic process.

The narrative of individual transformation is a familiar theme, however, no journey is trivial.  Taming Mythological Creatures establishes itself as a bold expression of Erresh’s lived experience and imagined realities capable of holding space to consider the vulnerable existence we occupy in being and becoming.  

  RIA DESIREE.