Reception: David Olivant: Raids on the Inarticulate

David Olivant’s imagery is centered on the fundamental existential crises that define our humanity. Is our species capable of the necessary moral energy to reinvent itself from the ground up and to what extent is art the driver of such an effort? Olivant seeks an art that fights its way out of and through history, finding meaning in suffering and the fraught attempt to “complete” each other through fundamental difference.