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Ilana Savdie

ILANA SAVDIE

Paris (2024) White Cube 31 May–27 July 2024 Paris
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Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in France, ‘Ectopia’ presents new paintings and works on paper that develop the artist’s exploration of performance and theatricality as responses to structures of power.

In this exhibition, the artist focuses on the concept of spectacle and the figure of the hero that emerges from it. Through her works of acrylic, oil and beeswax, Savdie looks to intersections between the biological world and the folkloric to address modes of adaptation and survival, while challenging encoded binaries such as predator/prey, pleasure/disgust and verity/artifice.

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About the Artist

Ilana Savdie explores themes of performance, transgression, identity and power in her vibrant, large-scale paintings. Assembling fragments into finely detailed, fluid compositions, her canvases pulsate with flamboyant colour, conjoining, merging and blending their forms in an aesthetics of riotous excess. At their core, Savdie’s paintings aim to dismantle ideas of binary or fixed identity, and to embrace the notion of performance as a transformative tool.

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About the Gallery

An international art powerhouse, White Cube was established in 1993 in London by art dealer Jay Jopling. In its space on Duke Street, it served as the early exhibition venue for many now internationally acclaimed British artists, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Rachel Kneebone and Antony Gormley, who still show with the gallery today.

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White Cube contemporary art gallery in Paris France
White Cube
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+33 (0) 1 87 39 85 97
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Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 12.30pm; 1.30pm - 6pm
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