Amongst its many purposes, myth preserves the memory of a community while shaping its relationship with history. Myths travel, adapt, and are reinterpreted across time and culture.
However, as Mircea Eliade (1963) suggested, these are not merely static stories of the past, but “living histories” that communities continually renew through ritual and retelling. In
this sense, they become vehicles of movement for memory, culture, and belief systems.
Legend in Motion, the title of this exhibition, alludes to Bennet-Kagan’s exploration of this dynamic quality of myth. A recurring motif in the artist’s practice is the abstracted figure in motion, appearing throughout the Legend series presented here. This rolling figure embodies the vitality of storytelling through bodily movement and gestural brushstrokes. The artist has also extended this practice beyond the studio, as in performative interventions where she inscribes this figure in graffiti onto pavements, dissolving the boundaries between private
artistic practice and the public sphere, between the individual and the community. Through this act, Bennet-Kagan shows how stories are not confined to representation but enacted in
space, as a living process of writing and re-writing.
The exhibition design embraces a non-linear arrangement, reinforcing the motif of the rolling figure as a symbol of perpetual motion through space and time. Echoing Roland Barthes’
idea of myth as a form of “second-order signification” (1972), Bennet-Kagan’s art shifts fluidly between contexts, pointing to how stories and symbols travel, accumulate new meanings, and reconfigure our shared cultural imagination.