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
Lily ~ לילי
Video | 2:00 min | 2005
"The evening gave to the audience the film "Lily", a brilliant animation of Dana Darvish. A naked woman with a tiger head, hands and legs plays with what seems as a tigress tail. She begets a swan from between her legs. In the end, she use the swan to masturbate during she swallowing him from down to up and grows his wings to her self in order to fly out of the stage. Image and anti-image of a woman is merging in successfully. The autonomous woman, who does not need a man, she is also an animal- woman, a nature- woman with all the masculine stereotypes. Under the cover of a light-footed post-feministic hidden a serious substance. This is a pop-video on its best."
Hamutal Shtrangset and Ulrich Gottmaire
Studio Magazine vol.165, June- July 2006

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