my body,
my castle
The thematic focus of the third edition of Lokart 2025 is the body, specifically the body-image and body-interpretation of different generations of contemporary art. It could be argued that the sensual representation of the human body is a phenomenon that is as old as human civilisation, yet there are many aspects of the body that make it very relevant and topical in today's art.
Our sense of reality has changed irrevocably in recent decades as a result of our social fragmentation. In the context of this process, the proliferation of social media has become a kind of lock between us and reality. It is no coincidence that, as a result, our understanding of reality is increasingly dominated by processes whereby more and more of us are navigating our increasingly chaotic reality individually, relying on our own individual means. It is as if the social fabric around us has unravelled and we are left alone. As the remnants of our social systems are increasingly distrusted, the certainty of the individual and his or her own direct physical or psychological experience has been valorised, and from this, countless individual narratives are now being constructed. Not unconnected to these processes is the increased receptivity to body culture and psychology, which resonates in the interpretative space of the exhibited works.
The physical and psychological reality of our body remains the last basic unit of our
we can no longer compartmentalise in the face of reality. For the individual, the body has thus become the most elementary surface of perception and communication.
Lokart explores the body as an entity that is the fundamental elemental carrier of our symbols, signs and even stories. Through the complex processes of our perception, the reception of any human body, however stylized, triggers narrative interpretations. The exhibition aims to provide a number of examples of this phenomenon.
