Archival Print | The Forgotten Lesson
$286.00
Sebastian with down-left-arrow
Benjamin Bannan$1,800.00
Exhibition Artist Benjamin Bannan
This image echoes the archetypal seventeenth-century depictions of Saint Sebastian—a figure of male victimhood, feminized beauty, pierced and ecstatic. Yet here, he is barely present, reduced to a series of discrete but recognisable objects: arrow, wound, flesh. In this abstraction lies a potential unmaking of identity, rather than its reinforcement. The translucent arrow icon, often a symbol of sexual behaviour, hints at how such signs produce increasingly narrow identity categories. Through repetition this work instead proposes a quiet corrosion—a loosening of the ties between symbol, act, and self.
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