Juno Calypso's photograph "Seaweed Wrap" features a pastel pink bathroom with a stark contrast created by a gray, gloved hand emerging from a tub. The composition is clean, with distinct lines and mirror reflections enhancing the surreal atmosphere. The image, styled in a retro-futuristic manner, blends elements of Americana with unsettling body horror. Through her alter ego Joyce, Calypso critiques the pressures of beauty standards, capturing a moment that is both aesthetically pleasing and inherently disquieting, reflecting the duality of the beauty industry. ...
Juno Calypso’s alter ego Joyce lives an uncanny fantasy of beauty treatments, spas and 1950s suburbia. There is a performativity to her role, an understanding and subversion of what we put our bodies through to achieve perfection in femininity. Calypso’s scenes are science-fiction and body horror dressed up as a pastel toned idyll. They teach us to question the extremes we go through to meet beauty standards. Joyce’s world might be beautiful, but it is also cold, clinical and frightening, both a celebration and condemnation of the beauty, health and wellness industries. She has composed a Cronenberg-ian dollhouse, like something out of Dead Ringers, where the body must endure strange tools and treatments in impeccable but uneasy reflections of bathrooms, kitchens, clinics. It is Barbie meets Valley of the Dolls meets bubblegum pink and baby blue Americana and suburbia. ...
LODO Gallery is a contemporary art space dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between emptiness and materiality. Founded on the belief that the void is not a lack, but a fertile ground for meaning and creation, the gallery showcases works across a range of media—including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video.
Its curatorial approach emphasizes conceptual depth and visual resonance, offering exhibitions that invite reflection on contrast, presence, and transformation. The name LODO, meaning “mud” in Spanish, symbolizes the gallery’s core philosophy: like mud—a blend of earth and water—the void is a generative matrix where form and thought take shape.
Located at the intersection of absence and expression, LODO Gallery fosters a space where artistic practices can unfold with freedom, nuance, and integrity. ...
