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ANA KARKAR SOLO PRESENTATION아나 개인전Booth B406 – 10 September 2023COEX 1F, Hall A&B, 513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, SeoulFor Kiaf SEOUL 2023, Galerie Marguo presents nine new and recent paintings by Paris-based artist Ana Karkar, marking her first exhibition in Asia. Ana Karkar’s trippy projections of torsional nudes writhe, float, and linger in the threshold between pleasure and fear, shame and emancipation. The unstable vicissitudes of identity, of desire, of the boundaries between the self and the double, are rendered through Karkar’s fluvial, sinuous strokes.
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In Karkar's paintings, consider the recurring presence of teeth amidst the rapturous haze of bodies and faces: symbols of intimacy and aggression, vulnerability and violence. The mouth framed here as a two-way street for the release and absorption of energy.
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Ana Karkar
No more staring at the ceiling, 2023Oil on linen
162 x 130 cm (63 3/4 x 51 1/8 in) -
Reminiscent in feeling of Schiele and Bacon’s raw, warped expressionism, her paintings give rise to figures at once starkly defined yet simultaneously provisional. Alchemical in their eroticism, lovers evaporate into a joint wisp of smoke, or decompose into jumbles of acid-hued ligaments and biomorphic planes.
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Ana Karkar
Falling where you lay, 2023Oil on linen
97 x 146 cm (38 1/4 x 57 1/2 in) -
While modeled on images of found erotica – a nod to the ubiquity of such media in the bygone era of a post- free love San Francisco, whose wake extended into Karkar’s childhood – these new works meditate on the psycho-existential interiority of selfhood and the task of negotiating the worlds we move through.
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Ana Karkar
Call me Snake Again, 2023Oil on linen
97 x 146 cm (38 1/4 x 57 1/2 in) -
The janus-faced motifs of violence and pleasure that run through this body of work are bound by their shared potential for release. Karkar’s practice similarly approaches painting as an act of liberatory expression, and explores the capacity of art objects to serve as conduits of shared energy between maker and viewer.
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Ana Karkar
A touch to be undone, 2022Oil on linen
54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in) -
Portrait of Ana Karkar. Photo: Kira Bunse.
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