Ivana Ba拧i膰: Form of Flight
Fran莽ois Ghebaly is proud to present Form of Flight, New York-based artist Ivana Ba拧i膰鈥檚 first solo exhibition with the gallery. The wall-based sculptures and drawings on display offer an introduction to the formal strategies and unique material language that the artist has developed over the course of her practice鈥攚hat the artist calls 鈥渁 language of becoming.鈥�
Yugoslavian-born artist Ivana Ba拧i膰 has for over a decade endeavored at an artistic and philosophical workspace far beyond the conventional bounds of human or organic form. To the contrary, her figures are metamorphic, in states of shifting biological, physical, and metaphysical identity. Charged by the artist鈥檚 early vantage of violence and brutality brought on by the collapse of Yugoslavia, Ba拧i膰鈥檚 multidisciplinary practice levies a posthumanist lens to investigate our most pressing ontological fixations: the fragility of the human condition; the breakdown of self and other; a reimagination of life and death; and a quest for immortality.
For Form of Flight, these lines of inquiry converge in a body of sculptures and drawings that point toward still further possibilities of existence. The exhibition title is taken from Catherine Malabou鈥檚 鈥淭he Ontology of the Accident,鈥� wherein Malabou describes metamorphosis as a substitute for flight when there is nowhere left to retreat or hide: 鈥淭he only possible way out from the impossibility of flight appears to be the formation of a form of flight. In other words, the formation of an identity that flees itself,鈥� as a way to free itself.
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Fran莽ois Ghebaly is proud to present Form of Flight, New York-based artist Ivana Ba拧i膰鈥檚 first solo exhibition with the gallery. The wall-based sculptures and drawings on display offer an introduction to the formal strategies and unique material language that the artist has developed over the course of her practice鈥攚hat the artist calls 鈥渁 language of becoming.鈥�
Yugoslavian-born artist Ivana Ba拧i膰 has for over a decade endeavored at an artistic and philosophical workspace far beyond the conventional bounds of human or organic form. To the contrary, her figures are metamorphic, in states of shifting biological, physical, and metaphysical identity. Charged by the artist鈥檚 early vantage of violence and brutality brought on by the collapse of Yugoslavia, Ba拧i膰鈥檚 multidisciplinary practice levies a posthumanist lens to investigate our most pressing ontological fixations: the fragility of the human condition; the breakdown of self and other; a reimagination of life and death; and a quest for immortality.
For Form of Flight, these lines of inquiry converge in a body of sculptures and drawings that point toward still further possibilities of existence. The exhibition title is taken from Catherine Malabou鈥檚 鈥淭he Ontology of the Accident,鈥� wherein Malabou describes metamorphosis as a substitute for flight when there is nowhere left to retreat or hide: 鈥淭he only possible way out from the impossibility of flight appears to be the formation of a form of flight. In other words, the formation of an identity that flees itself,鈥� as a way to free itself.
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