YVES ARGUE

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Yves Argue communicates personal beliefs and stories through an iconography of surrealistic animals, human forms, and rich symbology in painting and sculptural works. These works separate the societal forces of gender, religion, and beauty from the bodies they are imposed upon to consider how these pressures contort the physical in pursuit of the metaphysical. 

The warped animals in Argue’s work reveal memories of compulsion, resentment, and intimacy to suggest how the body and mind must adapt to endure hardship. These creatures, rich with cultural connotation, are distorted to enhance the qualities of strength, grace, and power that make our bestial contemporaries awe-inspiring. After millions of years of evolution, these once successful traits are unable to adapt to unfamiliar circumstances and find themselves at a tragic evolutionary impasse.