Episode 141 - Cybele Cox artist exploring ancient feminine symbols
Many thanks to Cybele for welcoming us into her home and studio very close to us in Avalon Beach. 'Cybele Cox’s practise explores ancient feminine symbols and occult mysticism, which is part of a larger enquiry into representations of women in the western art canon. Using hand built ceramic totems and figures, painting, drawing and more recently costume, Cox seeks to re-invoke occult practices of an imagined ancestral lineage. She makes the proposition that magic and ritual have been dismissed by the secular nature of Western society, which overlooks the importance of the spiritual realm and altered mental states. Making figurative sculpture is a means of entry into a mystical realm, which embodies hybridity of human-body-animal, fusing symbols from the mythic world with fantasies for a new feminist order. Her work proposes a return to occult knowledge, as a re-flowering of the spiritual.'Thanks for talking to us Cybele. Cybele is represented by Yavuz GalleryWarning: please be advised this episode contains content of sexual abuse.