Marine Lover
Abraham Kritzman & Violeta Paez Armando
Curation & Text
by Àngels Miralda
Marine Lover: Wax & Water is the first half of a progressive exhibition curated by Miralda. The next phase Marine Lover: Snakes & Metal presented by Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery opens in Amsterdam on October 22nd at Bradwolff Projects, and continues until November 19th, 2022.
Opening Toast
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
18:00–21:00
Closing Soirée
Saturday, October 15th, 2022
16:00–19:00
Literature can also be liquid based on its lunar rhythms and bifurcating paths. For Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover is a challenge to the reign of the sun as wisdom. Instead, she writes from the viewpoint of deep waters that keep their own time as tide and keep secrets hidden in the dark deep.
So remember the liquid ground. And taste the saliva in your mouth also – notice her familiar presence during your silence, how she is forgotten when you speak. Or again: how you stop speaking when you drink. And how necessary all of that is for you!
Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover, 1981
The natural sciences began as the quest of alchemy divided into four elements – earth, water, fire, and air. It was the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales who proposed that water was the origin of all things – that earth and air sat floating atop a great sea. He arrived at this conclusion by seeing wetness become air, slime, and earth. And indeed, seeds spring from moisture.
Abraham Kritzman and Violeta Paez Armando have collaboratively produced a new body of work that references material transformation as well as imagery of alchemy. Using watercolor and wax, the production of these pieces follows the principle of shifting states of matter, and the fluxes and flows of liquid paths. Alchemy produces codes of meaning in everyday things, and following this principle, the work of Kritzman and Paez uses the allegorical path of a sea-froth labyrinth to present an imaginative narrative of archetypal symbols.
Abraham Kritzman, WR Blowing It All Out of the Water
2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 70cm
Abraham Kritzman
Abraham Kritzman is an artist from Rehovot, Israel, who lives and works in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He works in printmaking, painting, drawing, and sculpture across a wide range of media and materials. His subject matter reaches across time to ancient archetypes and story-telling that often reference the layering of history and parallel interpretations. He studied Painting at the Royal College of Art in London and is a tutor in Printmaking at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem.
He has held solo and duo exhibitions at the Artist’s House, Jerusalem; Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Atelier 35, Bucharest; Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv; Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv; and Saint Mary Aldermary, London. Recent group exhibitions include: SMAC Gallery, Cape Town; Ashdod Art Museum; The Negev Museum of Art Beer Sheva; Elizabeth XI Bauer, London; Blyth Gallery, London; Arebyte Gallery, London; and the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
Violeta Paez Armando
Violeta Paez Armando is an artist from Córdoba, Argentina, who lives and works in Amsterdam. Her practice combines sculpture, writing, and performance. Paez’s work critically engages with sci-fi narratives, and ideas of monstrosity informed by queer and decolonial discourses, in order to explore questions around permeability and malleability. She has recently graduated from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and has gone on to several residencies and exhibitions in the city.
In 2021, PuntWG, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented Violeta Paez Armando: Love Revealed, or How to Keep All This Warmth at Bay, the final culmination of a 3-month residency at airWG supported by the Mondriaan Fonds. Event-based work has been presented at P////AKT in the context of a solo exhibition by June Crespo, at De Appel, and the Sandberg final exhibition at Het Hem, Zaandam. She is a co-founder and organizer of softcore reading together with Al Primrose which meets regularly in Amsterdam.
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