Untitled, 99G201 1999

Abie Loy Kemarre's 'Untitled, 99G201' presents us with a mesmerizing grid, a matrix of white lines undulating against a dark background. This pattern, seemingly simple, echoes through time, recalling the ancient motif of the labyrinth. The labyrinth, a symbol found in cultures from Crete to the American Southwest, represents a journey, a quest for truth, or a passage through life's complexities. Here, Kemarre's distorted grid suggests a landscape not of stone corridors, but of a shifting, living terrain. Like Ariadne's thread, these lines may guide us through the chaos, but there is no promise that we will find the Minotaur, or ourselves, at its center. Consider how such a grid appears in Renaissance tapestries, symbolizing order and control, yet here, it ripples, defying perfect geometry. The emotional resonance lies in this tension: the comfort of structure versus the unease of its distortion. It speaks to the subconscious pull between our desire for stability and the inevitable flux of existence, a visual echo of the eternal dance between order and chaos. The image evokes a sense of disorientation, yet it compels us to follow the shifting lines, to trace the memory of patterns embedded deep within the human psyche.