(Eintritt frei | admission free)
BABYLON, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, big cinema hall
We are very happy to welcome Dafna Maimon with
Trailer Conglomerate, 2016, 2 min
Waiting to Act , 2010, 16 min
Orient Express, 2014, 6 min
Discipline Aid Attempt No 1, 2008, 11 min
The She The Same, 2014, 20 min
Dafna Maimon’s work constitutes an exploration of small-scale communities that challenge stereotypical constructions. Mainly cinematic and performative, her work focuses on understanding and studying the unclear limits of identity, the body and human emotional landscapes. The crew around a movie project, her closest family, a crowd of close friends in the art-world of a city or a Bonobo tribe are all possible groups she uses to research different modern traumas and conceptualizations of both pain and happiness. These communities are taken as an object of study, but simultaneously they form the structural elements of the projects with which she rehearses economic affect based systems and other paths of socialization. Dafna Maimon (FI, 1982) is an artist based in Berlin. Maimon has shown her work in institutions and art spaces such as Kunst-Werke (Berlin), PS1 Moma (New York), Centre for Contemporary Arts Uzajdowski Castle (Warsaw), Lilith Performance Studio (Malmö), Based in Berlin, Crikoteka, Tadeusz Kantor Center (Krakau), HAU 2 (Berlin), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, W139 (Amsterdam), 1646 (The Hague), Project Native Informant (London) New Orleans Film Society with Deltaworkers (New Orleans) and Le Magasin (Grenoble). She has been artist in resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin 2015), IASPIS (Stockholm 2014), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC 2012) and Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, (Maine 2008).
Maimon studied in Amsterdam and holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and an MFA from The Sandberg Institute.
Wir freuen uns Euch zu sehen | we are looking forward to seeing you
Herzliche Grüße | best regards
Ivo Wessel, Olaf Stüber
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