• Simon Fujiwara

    Simon Fujiwara

    Simon Fujiwara born 1982, London, England. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. 
    Fujiwara’s work takes multiple forms including wax figures, robotic cameras, ‘make-up’ paintings and short films that address the complexity and contradictions of identity in a post-internet, hyper-capitalist world. The artist often investigates themes of popular interest such as tourist attractions, famous icons, historic narratives and mass media imagery and has collaborated with the advertising and entertainment industries to produce his work in a process he describes as ‘hyper-engagement’ with dominant forms of cultural production. Fujiwara’s work can be seen as a complex response to the human effects of image fetish, technology and social media on his generation. 
    A retrospective of Fujiwara's work is currently presented at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. 

  • Fabulous beasts

     Fabulous beasts is a series of fur coats purchased in and around Berlin dating from 1950-2000. Through a highly laborious process of shaving, all traces of fur are removed to reveal the archaeology of coats’ production. The shaved coats reveal manufacturers’ stamps, painstaking patchwork detail, dye marks, and animal skin diseases and blemishes. The coats are further deconstructed, based on the tailoring pattern, and reconfigured into flat skins, which are mountedon a stretcher as tokens of a defunct idea of wealth. With references to Arte Povera and reminiscent of anthropological hides as well as early man’s clothing, the works trace the changing nature of taste, value, luxury and society. In their new state, the skins appear both primal and luxurious in an age where the deeper knowledge of production and history is fetishized as much as the finished products themselves.
    • Simon Fujiwara, Fabulous Beasts (Great depression mink), 2016
      Simon Fujiwara, Fabulous Beasts (Great depression mink), 2016
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    • Simon Fujiwara, Fabulous Beasts (African Feline), 2016
      Simon Fujiwara, Fabulous Beasts (African Feline), 2016
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  • Performance view, White Day, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Exhibition view, White Day, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Exhibition view, Dvir Gallery / Brussels (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Performance view, White Day, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

  • Simon Fujiwara, Lactose/Intolerance (Double Portrait), 2014

    Simon Fujiwara

    Lactose/Intolerance (Double Portrait), 2014
    oil on canvas
    193 x 162.5 x 5 cm (each)
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  • Yudith Levin, 'THE PUREST VOICE IN ISRAELI ART'

    Yudith Levin

    'THE PUREST VOICE IN ISRAELI ART'

    Yudith Levin born 1949, Ein Vered, Israel, where she lives and works.

    Levin is considered one of the key figures in Israeli art. Over an artistic career spanning over more than four decades, she has been creating paintings on both traditional and nontraditional supports, covering canvases as well as scraps of discarded plywood found on the streets of Tel Aviv with expressive, gestural brushstrokes and semi-abstract figures and landscapes. By combining abstraction and figuration and using deliberately vague titles, Levin makes evocative works that are open to varied readings. The artist confronts the viewer with a borderline painting – in-between nothingness and a whole universe, between chaos and diamond, between a dump and flight. One of the places where Levin’s work deviates from the rational is the lack of distinction between figurative and abstract. Her figurative paintings are created like abstract paintings, from gestures which are not underlain by any figurative plan or intention.

    Ouzi Zur, the most prominent critic of Haaretz newspaper, described Yudith Levin in 2021 as 'The Purest Voice in Israeli Art'.

     

  • Yudith Levin, Really and Truly, 2021, exhibtion view, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Yudith Levin, Really and Truly, 2021, exhibtion view, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Art Biesenthal, group exhibition, 2023, Wehrmuehle (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Carmel, Yudith Levin, 2021, group exhibtion, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Yudith Levin, Really and Truly, 2021, exhibtion view, Dvir Gallery Tel Aviv

  • Bri Williams

    Bri Williams

    Bri Williams born 1993, Long Beach, United States. Lives and works in Oakland, USA.

    Williams received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 and MFA from Mills College in 2017. Their work often includes found objects and materials that are repurposed and reworked. In some cases, the objects are molded in soap, a material which is used allegorically, to contain and examine past traumas, but also function as a spiritual cleansing. Connecting personal associations with these objects and their history, Williams’ work addresses collective memories and trauma, identity structures and power roles. 

    • Bri Williams, Closer II, 2020
      Bri Williams, Closer II, 2020
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    • Bri Williams, Curb Stomp, 2018
      Bri Williams, Curb Stomp, 2018
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  • In a Thin Voice, 2024, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery Paris (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Exhibition view, Kunsthaus Glarus (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    In a Thin Voice, 2024, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery Paris (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    In a Thin Voice, 2024, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery Paris 

    • Bri Williams, For the love of, 2020
      Bri Williams, For the love of, 2020
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    • Bri Williams, Prometheus, 2021
      Bri Williams, Prometheus, 2021
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    • Bri Williams, Sword in Stone, 2018
      Bri Williams, Sword in Stone, 2018
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    • Bri Williams, Thick Skin, 2023
      Bri Williams, Thick Skin, 2023
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    • Bri Williams, Untitled, Target, 2023
      Bri Williams, Untitled, Target, 2023
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    • Bri Williams, Solar Plexus, 2023
      Bri Williams, Solar Plexus, 2023
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  • Aysha E Arar

    Aysha E Arar

    Aysha E Arar uses painting, language, video and poetry and turns spaces into arenas where she expresses herself. She paints on paper, on canvas and on the wall, moving from narrative to abstract painting, and combines imaginary creatures based on Palestinian legends in contrasting colors such as red versus blue and yellow ver-sus black. Arar covers her personal biography as a woman in a patriarchal society and touches on questions of tradition, freedom of choice and liberation.
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  • Aysha E Arar, The kick, 2018

    Aysha E Arar

    The kick, 2018
    Aysha E Arar (born in 1993) lives and works in Jaljulia. In 2018, she received her BFA with honors from the HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts - Beit Berl College. During her studies, she won the Boaz Arad Excellence Award and the America Israel Cultural Foundation Award.
     
    She has had solo exhibitions at Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv & Brussels (2023); Beit Hagefen, Haifa (2023); Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv (2022); Givat Haviva Art Gallery (2021). In January 2024, the artist will have parralel solo show at Sans titre and Dvir Gallery, Paris. 
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    • Aysha E Arar, 2023
      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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    • Aysha E Arar, 2023
      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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    • Aysha E Arar, 2023
      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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    • Aysha E Arar, 2023
      Aysha E Arar, 2023
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    Chaya Hazan

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