The Face was Abstraction / הפנים היו הפשטה
The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, 2016
Solo Exhibition
"Constanin Brancusi’s 1910 “Sleeping Muse,” a marble sculpture of mythical status, is at the center of Dana Darvish’s new exhibition. Following his muse sculpture, Brancusi often returned to the theme of the reclining face, increasingly aspiring to a higher level of abstraction. In a series of doublings, distortions and overlays evocative of the modern master’s own intensive preoccupation with this theme, Darvish sets out to awaken the sleeping muse, taking the loss of the face – and in fact the loss of the muse – as her starting point for the series..."
Dana Darvish | Art. dana279@gmail.com
דנה דרויש | דנה דרוויש
Dana Darvish | Art. dana279@gmail.com
דנה דרויש | דנה דרוויש
The Gods' Sorrow | צער האלים
Video, 8:00 min, 2002
״In her work “The Gods’ Sorrow” (2002) Dana Darvish devises a nightmare vision of vicious matriarchial rule, with women warriors, harem concubines and showgirls alongside eunuchs and dogs - all loyal servants of a carnal and ruthless female monster. In “The Gods’ Sorrow”, much like Bataille’s “Story of the Eye” there is an excess of cruelty, sex and death, a visual deluge aimed at provoking a response from the viewer..."
from "Twisted Reality" Catalog. The Israeli Center for Digital Art
Curators: Irena Gordon & Yoav Raban
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Turning Point 5 ~ נקודת ממפנה 5
Actual Animals | נפש חיה בי
Arad Contemporary Art Center | Solo Exhibition | Curator: Leah Abir | 2021
״During her stay in Arad, Dana Darvish found herself repeatedly returning to one place: on the outskirts of the city, in the industrial area, near the factories and the main landfill, where free dogs live. They are not pets but also not wild animals. Every evening, activists from the "Arad Lachay" animal welfare organization come there to feed and water these dogs, the outcasts, the expelled, who have been pushed beyond the boundaries of sight. In what looks like wilderness and aridity, like piles of neglected remains and alienated industrial buildings, Darvish's look at the lives of the outcast dogs community reveals to us powerful, proud and hunched forces, of survival, compassion, family and friendship..."
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Review by Gilad Raich at Erev-Rav | Review at Haaretz newspaper
Actual Animals
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