Conditions for Re-entry Part 2 brings together Mark Misic’s use of installation, drawing, painting and video, featuring figures, masks, animals and symbols representing acts of transformation, transmutation and transcendence. 

Drawing on his interests in psychology, science, mythology and mysticism Misic provokes the imagination to make associations, to reconstruct elements of self, to conjure the mystic, to channel the shaman.   

Through repetition, line and colour this body of work draws on the tradition of the self portrait to explore the intersection of the physical human experience and universal phenomenology. Misic explores the strange couplings, flows and alliances that occur when our internal systems of self-governance and human physicality morph with the primordial landscape. 

Misic work reflects the body as an object of enquiry, articulating what Maurice Merleau-Ponty refers to as a “permanent condition of experience, a constituent of perceptual openness to the world”.