Take Over

Lawrence Cervantes

January 9 to February 2, 2021

Italian medievalist Umberto Eco adhered that in order to survive one must constantly tell stories. For Lawrence Cervantes, however, he prefers to paint them in gestation.

In his exhibition last year, Origins Cervantes initially defined his bespoke visual style advocating an opportune time venturing on the apocalypse. In Take Over, he continues this authentic narration to reflect their ongoing ethereal ambience and eerie presence when Nature becomes the dominant force leaving humans wrought in their own misery.

In Take Over, the grim scenario is Nature turned against humans, in fact, it overtook the race by its own consumption leading to our eventual perish. If Origins was at the beginning of creation the plot is reversed in Take Over as people are dissolved and vegetation lush are all there was left. This bleak oversight preoccupies Cervantes’ brushstrokes as the lopsided world domination in at hand.

-Jay Bautista