Bruised Bodies & Contorted Forms

Art by @neuevil

“Neuevil creates some of the most stunning body visuals I’ve seen, blending softness, strength, and surrealism in ways that are both ethereal and deeply human.”

– @originalmamatangyai

Issue 9 of aithena.art magazine is curated by @originalmamatangyai
Rebecca Smith Mamatangyai
Artist
May 2025

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Neuevil’s art explores the delicate tension between beauty and discomfort, focusing on freckled, bruised bodies, contorted forms, and human idiosyncrasies. The images are close-up and intimate, both strikingly beautiful and slightly grotesque. This duality echoes the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and literary theorist who wrote about the grotesque body as one in constant transformation, imperfect, exaggerated, and alive. Rather than idealizing the figure, Neuevil captures the raw physicality of the body in motion and mutation, inviting viewers to find beauty in its vulnerability, strangeness, and emotional depth.

– @perfectagala

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