Butoh Medusa

CROW

Year2024

MediumMixed Media on Canvas

Dimensions 140 × 190 × 4 cm

Price€14000 EUR

This work explores resurrection not as a literal return from death, but as a process of transformation and renewal. Emerging from a dense, dark ground, a fragmented human figure unfolds through multiple overlapping limbs and gestures, revealing traces of movement, memory, and inner struggle. The body appears suspended between dissolution and becoming, shedding its former self while reaching toward a new state of existence.

The layered anatomy evokes both dance and metamorphosis, suggesting the simultaneous presence of past and present identities. Rather than depicting a triumphant ascent, the bowed head and ethereal forms convey a quiet, introspective rebirth. Darkness becomes a space of origin rather than an end, from which consciousness, spirit, and self gradually emerge.

Rendered in a restrained palette of muted blues, whites, and blacks, the work blurs the boundaries between body and space, material and immaterial. The result is a poetic meditation on resilience, transformation, and the continual possibility of becoming anew.