MYSTIQMORTE

November 2024

by Ken Weaver

 MYSTIQMORTE is a sculpture and film installation where the arrival of alien Godheads are prophesied by shamanic netherworld characters, and the gallery itself becomes a portal where sound and image exist beyond temporal affliction. Weaver's sculptures take the form of otherworldly furies from an interstellar dimension, penetrating the gallery walls and protruding through the veil of this world. These forms are biological eviscerated reflections, a manifestation of the trauma and tragedy of our times. Weaver explores the physical realization of his alien fiction; they are figures unburdened by gravity, an alchemical abstraction of otherness. 

In the short experimental horror film MYSTIQMORTE: ALIEN DEMONOLOGY, Weaver is featured as performer, choreographer and musical composer in collaboration with director Alexis Karl. The viewer is confronted with four characters that are harbingers of doom, prophets from the nether realms foreseeing the fall of mankind and our rebirth within an alien world. The first character is bathed in burning light- silently incanting words we will never hear and lost to the glare of his personal eternity.  The second is a figure of dust and ash- he is the memory of civilizations lost, the sorrow of fallen worlds. The third is a shaman and seer, whose words reach us through the echo of time and space, he is the warning of the horror that is to come. The fourth figure is a nightmare manifest- a creature of blood and screams, caught in the vicious loop of his eternal rebirth. 

Together they herald the prophecy of MYSTIQMORTE.

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