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
Grants & Awards
2009 - Grant for experimental film, Rabinovich Art Foundation
2008 - Special Mention Award, the 5rd International Woman's Film Festival ,Israel
2005 - Special Mention Award, the 2rd International Woman's Film Festival ,Israel
"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..."
The Face was Abstraction
Solo Exhibition. The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, 2016
Text by Natalie Brown
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The Face was Abstraction
Solo Exhibition. The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, 2016
Text by Natalie Brown
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The Last Fish
A series of photography
2014 - 2018
The Kiss, 2012
Inkjet Print, 46x54 cm
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Ana Asfoura (I am a Bird)
Video, 2:30 min, 2006