EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 YASSER ABUBEKER

Posted on 2022-03-03

Focusing on authenticity, Yasser Abubeker aims to document delicate and complex stories centred on communities and the intersections he exists within.

Alongside producing shoots for the likes of The New York Times, London’s Design Museum and i_D, Abubeker’s personal work as a director promises honesty, thoughtful narrative arcs and colour.

With an open approach and a passion for inclusivity, Abubeker is determined to leave his mark on the filmmaking scene.

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EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 DEBA HEKMAT

Posted on 2022-03-02

Born in Kurdistan, model, creative and activist Deba Hekmat uses her platform to spotlight issues such as beauty standards, mental health, immigration and self-acceptance. After fleeing her hometown of Sardasht at the age of four with her mother and aspirations of a better shot at life, Hekmat began a new start in South London.

Not to be underestimated and humble in her advocacy for social justice, Hekmat continues to be a figure of hope- breaking down the status quo and proving that anything is possible.

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MICHAEL HILSMAN – MAN ON BED

Posted on 2022-02-28

“Man On Bed” the work from which this exhibition takes its name, is deceptively flat in both form and title. Like an analyst’s couch, the titular lounger is a device for day-dreaming. Its pink upholstery is a ground upon which Hilsman has rendered – with unsettling detail – a man’s feet protruding from beneath a blanket. Light glints off each nail and the second toe on the left foot bends at the tip, revealing a broken phalanx. Bony and elongated with sallow skin, these alien appendages are a metonym of modern man’s estrangement from his own body, a corpus increasingly objectified and pathologized. They illustrate what Hilsman describes as his effort to “foreground the physical in order to highlight the unseen.”

Opposite – Figure With Flowers And Spoon, 2021

Exhibition runs through to April 23rd, 2022

Almine Rech
18 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

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MIKA HORIBUCHI – WATERCOLORS

Posted on 2022-02-21

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Watercolors, Mika Horibuchi’s first New York solo exhibition. The paintings contain no actual watercolor media, but a combination of oil painting techniques used to recreate images from photos of her grandmother’s watercolor paintings.
As a nod to traditional photo mounting techniques, Horibuchi has applied and sanded many layers of gesso to create a subtle relief in the form of a rectangle with four triangular corners. This ultra-smooth painting surface is “framed” by the raw, stretched linen of her support, as if each image is suspended on the page of a family photo album.

Opposite – Watercolor of Pi-ko, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022

Bortolami Gallery
55 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

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SARAH CUNNINGHAM – IN ITS DAYBREAK, RISING

Posted on 2022-02-14

Cunningham’s works depict complex psychological landscapes drawn from nature, vision and dreams. The artist frequently paints through the night until sunrise, a habit that engenders her use of deep, saturating pigments like Prussian blue and viridian green that evoke the duskiness of evening’s onset. Gestural strokes of crimsons and yellows frequently illuminate the compositions, mimicking the crepuscular light of dawn and casting into sharper relief the topography of the painted canvases.

Opposite – Echo Chamber, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

Almine Rech
39 East 78th Street
NY 10075
New York

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ORTAMIKLOS – RELATIONS

Posted on 2022-02-07

The exhibition offers insight into Orta and Miklos, who decided to separate this past year to develop their individual studio practices. Divided into three separate sections, works by OrtaMiklos alongside pieces from Orta and Miklos Anderson’s independent studios. Relationscaptures this rare moment in the careers of these emerging designers by looking at how their approach to design has evolved while working as part of a collective and how that experience continues to shape their approach since leaving the partnership.

Opposite – Yellow Foot, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
NY 10001 New York
USA

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