Primordial Sauce, EMKI
28th November – 5th December 2024
Opening Times: 12-6pm
PRIVATE VIEW: 28th November 6pm-10pm
@the.primordial.sauce
At once naive and technically accomplished, EMKI’s obsessively generated pieces manifest human complexity and fears, through representations of destructive natural forces, vibrant abstract landscapes and nurturing archetypal protectors.
Fueled by experiences of psychosis in his early 20s EMKI invites us to venture into an interactive teeming universe of psychedelic colour, utopias and underworlds, featuring a complex system of deities, guardians, monsters and demons.
EMKI transitions between media: from intuitively produced colour pencil drawings, to child-like impasto canvas, thickly applied charcoals and bold sculptural works made from industrial waste – his works restlessly document his personal cosmology, experiences with divinity and deep emotional connection to his subjects.Â
With influences spanning from Jean Debuffet, Robert Nava and the Fauves to outsider art, cave paintings and indigenous craftsmen, Primordial Sauce represents the culmination of a lifelong fascination with art-as-magic, global religious iconography and EMKI’s own struggle to integrate his experiences of ‘piercing the veil’.
Primordial Sauce, EMKI’s first solo show, encourages the viewer to validate and examine their own psycho-spiritual experiences as a potential source of meaning, peace and creativity.
EMKI (1993-) was born in Wallasey and has exhibited internationally. In the development of this show, he has worked with local drag artist and TRS studio member Brendan Curtis @eatmeclub for curatorial and technical support.
For access enquiries / contact: Â @emkidelpitt / mikael.pittman@gmail.com