A new solo show by American artist Gray Wielebinski, titled Dark Air, opens this Friday at new London gallery Seager. In the exhibition, two individual mythical creatures, the sphinx and the scorpion, are surgically stitched together in a gruesome amalgamation of bodies. The resulting mutant oscillates between the delicate and the monstrous, the graceful and the grotesque, the human and the beast. A constantly reimagined patchwork, the grotesque Frankensteinian beast consolidates the body—whether stuffed and stitched or made from flesh and bone—as a site that offers far more than exclusively binary possibilities. Wielebinski graduated from the Slade last year, and was selected as one of our Ones to Watch at the time.
