One of the fundamental conditions of human existence is the act of questioning. Through questioning, we’re able to expand our knowledge, deepen our self-understanding, and seek answers to the unresolved riddles of our own lives. According to the skeptical philosophical tradition, the nature of life is inherently uncertain, and it’s something we must accept while continuously questioning the reality of all things, and the trustworthiness of our own senses. This ancient idea calls for a renewed interpretation in the age of digital culture, where the reliability of individual perception has become irrevocably doubtful.
In Presocratic philosophy, apeiron denotes the infinite, the indeterminate, the eternal substance: the primordial principle from which everything arises and into which everything ultimately returns. In her latest solo exhibition, Naomi Devil explores this timeless concept through the human body as a medium of meaning. The central figures of the exhibition are archetypes rooted in cultural history and body philosophy: idealized, sculptural human forms that are not individual portraits but embodiments of shared psychoanalytic states. Willpower, hope, letting go, and resilience appear as gestures emerging from the deep layers of human experience, functioning as imprints of collective cultural memory.
The artist works with a consciously reductive visual language: monochromatic color palettes, purified compositions, and perspectives that evoke the traditions of metaphysical painting. These technical choices are not employed as self-serving aesthetic devices but as means of capturing the anthropological essence of the works. Here, the body operates simultaneously as a biological, social, and symbolic space through which suffering, care, and the passage of time become visible. Trauma and the suffering it entails are not presented as abnormalities, but as structural, identity-forming components of life — experiences that cannot be avoided, only interpreted and integrated.
Rather than addressing current political or trend-driven issues, the works bear witness to the timeless experiences of human existence. Love, mortality, individual responsibility, and uncertainty materialize through depictions that merge media and forms transcending the constraints of our physical reality. Naomi Devil’s latest series of paintings does not offer a teleological narrative. The question they raise is not whether a final goal exists, but how one can exist without the certainty of one.