Fragments of Humanity
Totems, Idols, and Urban Relics
August 10 – September 3, 2025 | Xochi Art Gallery

Xochi Art Gallery presents Fragments of Humanity, a group exhibition that brings together seven international artists in a compelling exploration of what defines the human condition today. Moving across painting, sculpture, photography, and digital media, the exhibition delves into the layered complexities of identity, power, memory, and transformation. Rather than offering a single narrative, Fragments of Humanity unfolds as a constellation of voices—a dialogue between totems, idols, and urban relics that echo both our origins and our uncertain futures.

At the core of the exhibition lies a shared desire to question and reconstruct. The artists confront oppressive systems, resurrect forgotten symbols, and reshape raw materials into forms that are at once ancient and futuristic. With each work, the human form becomes fractured—not diminished—but reimagined through new gestures, technologies, and rituals.

Introducing the Artists

Bel Mur (Spain)
Bel Mur champions the emancipation of women using her own body as a totemic force to confront systemic oppression. Through painting and sculpture, she reconstructs identity from the fragments of past silence and servitude. Her repeated female figures are raw and resolute—symbols of defiance and reconstructed selfhood that transform personal experience into a collective call for empathy and resistance.

TROY (Belgium)
A transhuman visual provocateur, TROY fuses pop art, digital culture, sculpture, and political satire into charged objects that dismantle the idols of consumerism and technological addiction. His neon-laced aesthetic and glitch-like imagery expose the cracks in our hyper-mediated world, creating contemporary relics that provoke, disrupt, and reflect our fractured techno-cultural landscape.

Henrique Netto (Brazil)
Netto offers a speculative vision of a future where the boundaries between biology and circuitry have dissolved. His imagined electroctopus realm becomes a metaphor for a humanity redefined by machines—fragmented, augmented, and synthetic. Positioned within the context of this exhibition, his work functions as a futuristic relic, simultaneously alluring and unsettling.

Eduardo Rangel (Venezuela)
Rangel merges traditional craftsmanship with contemporary abstraction by carving natural wood into fluid, emotive forms. Balancing precision and instinct, his sculptures act as tactile relics that bridge nature, memory, and identity. They remind us that the human story is written not only in progressive narratives but in cycles of transformation and return.

James Peter Henry (Australia)
Drawing from ancestral references and early encounters with Aboriginal cave art, Henry builds bold symbolic compositions that confront universal themes of belief, morality, and legacy. His work is a spiritual relic—layered with meaning and emotion—grounded in a deep connection to land and collective memory.

Karen Jordan (United States)
Jordan dissects the way we perceive reality through photographic abstractions captured entirely in-camera. Working without cropping or digital manipulation, she blurs the line between documentation and perception. Her images are quiet, ambiguous relics of vision—meditations on the tension between what we see and what we understand.

REMAUT. (Belgium)
Roger Remaut’s layered mixed-media paintings evoke aged urban surfaces—scratched, cracked, and etched with faded traces of graffiti. Through an instinctive process of construction and erasure, he creates textured totems that embody the residue of contemporary life. They stand as raw, resilient markers of collective memory and evolving identity.

Curator’s Note
“This exhibition does not seek a singular definition of what it means to be human, but instead offers a field of reflection—where material, form, and concept intersect to articulate the tensions and possibilities of contemporary life. Rather than offering answers, these works lean into ambiguity. They ask what remnants we leave behind, what structures we carry with us, and what new forms might emerge from the fragments of humanity.” — Luc Levez, Xochi Art Gallery