Lynk Collective

Gallery Show On-site June 7 – July 5

Responding to the chthonian call with strategies of fragmentation, reenactment and enlargement, the artists of Lynk Collective explore the folly and menace of our current age — with an eye to the Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance — by combining printmaking, sculpture and sound. Disarticulated body parts rendered in high-fired ceramic clay by Nguyen Ly are watched over by a massive drypoint figure referencing Sandro Botticelli’s late 15th century drawing of the devil. A small section of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, featuring musicians tortured in hell by their own instruments, is recreated and expanded upon in twelve separate panels printed on mulberry paper and tiled together on the wall. The sound design of Responsum, by Jared Millar, emanates from multiple speakers and takes inspiration from the fatal negotiations in John Lydgate’s 15th century Dance of Death, a call and response between Death and his vulnerable prey from all strata of society.