Grace and Agony
by Matt Rowe
Description
GRACE AND AGONY
Aside from the theme of incomunicability in contemporary society, this work deals with love and its most painful aspects. The subjects portrayed are a young, mouth-less couple, which symbolizes the human incapacity to communicate and truly love.
These young figures live in a white, abstract, aseptic world, which has made them unable to feel anything real and natural.
However, their love is sincere, even if oppressed and distorted by our contemporary society. The purity of this feeling creates a great, almost romantic contrast with the existential pain that characterizes the picture.