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
Kad alla Ras ~ כד על הראס ~ كاد على الرأس
Due-show with Rami Maymom | Oded Shatil Contemporary Art Space | 2018
* [ A jug over a head]
Kad: Hebrew for jug; Ras: Arabic for head
One is always the index of a multiplicity: an event, a singularity, a life...
Like a "Body Without Organs," an open plateau with no defined borders, or a collage with multiple sequences and possibilities – Rami Maymon and Dana Darvish create new forms for the sensory and intellectual experience. They operate in an open system that allows them to lose control, crumble identities, and construct new ones. Past and future are non-hierarchical events: the past is active in the present, as a dynamic source within reality, continually changing, regenerating, existing..."
Text by Ilanit Konopny. Continue reading hebrew | Engish
Review by Uzi Zur, HaAretz, 2018
