“Hayley Arjona presents a series of paintings and small sculptures that relate with one another within a looping narrative. The sculptures appear as characters that have stepped out of the paintings into a performative drama where fantasy, neurosis and horror reign. The paintings are mostly life-size and like the sculptures they demand intense scrutiny. Look closely and find teeth, skeletal bones, claws, animalisms inside architectural spaces, crevices, tunnels, orifices, dismembered body parts. Inside the body. Inside the mind. Imploding and exploring a psycho-dynamic narrative.” from catalogue essay by Anne Marsh, 2024