ARTBOX.PROJECT New York 1.0 Zane Sutra

Zane Sutra‘s work presents large-scale figurative oil paintings. It is about women, death, religion and sex. They are symbols stereotyping dangerous pleasures (like war crime and sex crime) and confront horror, femininity and mortality. The image elements of her recent paintings (dome ceilings, water, smoke, war planes) are codes, belonging to her own history. They are archetypes. They are factually absurd fragmented memories turned into autonomous story lines. Sutra‘s painted characters portray contradiction and conflict between grace and ruthlessness, attraction and brutality, innocence and crime, which are inherent in our pre-apocalyptic world. They point to the misleading illusory imaginations that control human obsessions and phobias through historical disasters. Her ultimate goal is to provoke the connection of everything to everything. Bits into whole, fragments into complete. By blurring the boundaries between the current and the timeless, Sutra attempts to erase the tension between the human and the divine.