Miles Petrella
Paranoid Narcissus II: Deadweights, and the swans being led to nemesis
about
Miles Petrella is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist, working mostly in installation, painting and drawing. He has recently completed a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality at Concordia University. With influences in queer theory and mythology, his work deconstructs aesthetics, artificiality and abjection.
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This mixed media installation creates a parallel between mythology and contemporary subject matter. Based on the myth of Narcissus and Leda & the Swan, themes of virility, hubris and artifice are explored as they intercept within public and private spaces; as well as how they are contrasted against nature. Or rather, how an environment/identity can be created, and thus deconstructed, in said spaces.