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There’s a larger Swiss showcase of drawings by the Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, whose rhythmic, hieratic nudes boil down modern life into dreamlike erotic rituals.

His show, titled “Strobe,” was inspired by the designer’s recent trip to Egypt and featured models wearing hieratic headpieces that were a cross between a Dan Flavin sculpture and a display panel at Just Bulbs.

Hanging behind him, in a hieratic arrangement suggestive of altars, two carcasses of beef.

The images were only applied in paint, but the hieratic texts were written in black or red ink and later traced, coarsely, with a knife.

Alongside the hieratic tableaux, I will long remember the virtuoso turns by solo performers, who gave this suprahuman work a human immediacy.