Three Scratch Marks and a Love Letter
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art•Apr 13, 2024 — Sep 29, 2024
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Izabella Volovnik creates a labyrinthine world that extends between imaginary domestic spaces and local landscapes while appropriating images from art history and her own immediate environment. She adds tributes to subcultures, such as heavy-metal music, online iconography, as well as post-internet culture (in dialogue with Internet’s aesthetics and sub-cultures) and aesthetic tropes from horror films. Her works engage with representations of femininity entwined with those of the animal kingdom in various cultures and languages; explore demonization and dehumanization as covert empowerment or alternative positions of power; and pose questions about hierarchy, power relations, sexuality, and violent desires—in society, culture, and the soul.
Out of oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and sculptures emerge a variety of figures of young women and girls, bears, horses, leopards, dogs and bitches, as well as monsters, demons and objects, some...More
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Three Scratch Marks and a Love Letter
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art•Apr 13, 2024 — Sep 29, 2024
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Izabella Volovnik creates a labyrinthine world that extends between imaginary domestic spaces and local landscapes while appropriating images from art history and her own immediate environment. She adds tributes to subcultures, such as heavy-metal music, online iconography, as well as post-internet culture (in dialogue with Internet’s aesthetics and sub-cultures) and aesthetic tropes from horror films. Her works engage with representations of femininity entwined with those of the animal kingdom in various cultures and languages; explore demonization and dehumanization as covert empowerment or alternative positions of power; and pose questions about hierarchy, power relations, sexuality, and violent desires—in society, culture, and the soul.
Out of oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and sculptures emerge a variety of figures of young women and girls, bears, horses, leopards, dogs and bitches, as well as monsters, demons and objects, some...More
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