15 Orient presents The Cruel and Violent Nature of the Domesticated Homo Sapiens”, a solo-exhibition by NY based artist Jay Payton.
Comprising a suite of works made over the past year, the exhibition marks a new turn in the artist’s ongoing investigation into the nature of abstraction as both an art-historical concept and a real phenomenological process. Having previously approached the term in relation to biology and the emergence of life, here Payton considers its etymological root—“to draw away by force”—as a figure of violence and extirpation.
