Peg LeVine’s figurative sculptures have been described as ‘an elegant excursion into the abyss’. She draws from her fieldwork as a torture-responsive psychologist, medical anthropologist, specialist of scorched-earth wars and genocide, and as the last remaining practitioner globally to uphold the traditional (classic) therapy designed by Shoma Morita, MD (Morita Therapy).  

Peg’s figurative works stack metal, stone and ceramic like sacred cairns. Some sculptures are cast to spin round for her stage performances of first-person genocide accounts. Most works hold the delicate tension between the grotesque and the sensual. 

The Macabre Bleeds into the Sensual.

Truth Sits Under the Lie. (LeVine, 2017)

It is as if my imagination gets saturated by the ways humans invent, perpetrate and justify cruelty. My body is restless until I sculpt or write on the realities few dare to contemplate for very long.” When exhibiting her work, Peg takes her duty of care seriously; she will not shock her audience with torture details, or foster any “ism” narrative (nationalism, monotheism, heterosexism, etc).

Cruelty is cruelty — regardless of which side of the fence you’re on.

Across my sculptures, without trying, the macabre bleeds into the sensual.