Neither love nor longing belongs to Marika’s dynamic duo, who instead enact a ritualized blood sport; each appears to be tearing the other apart and down. If the idea is that even lovers as close as that mythic couple inflict harm on each other, then Marika’s concept reflects our own era’s perspective, a tragedy perhaps still greater than Orpheus and Eurydice’s.
‘Animated Gestures’ | Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge | Through May 13
‘Picture Show’ | Photographic Resource Center, 832 Comm Ave, Boston | Through May 6
‘Denise Marika: Orpheus & Eurydice’ | Howard Yezerski Gallery, 14 Newbury Street, Boston | Through May 1
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