2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Stigter1/6/4Galerie Diana StigterDiana StigterDavid van DoesburgElandsstraat 90NL-1016 SH AmsterdamT +31 206 242 361M +31 653 718 596mail@dianastigterwww.dianastigter.nlShown at LISTE:Mark Boulos, 1975, USYael Davids, 1968, ILJimmy Robert, 1975, FROther Artists of the Gallery:Tariq Alvi, GBTjebbe Beekman, NLSemâ Bekirovic, NLMartha Colburn, USAmie Dicke, NLElspeth Diederix, NLIrene Fortuyn, NLTom Gidley, GBThomas Helbig, DEAukje Koks, NLNathaniel Mellors, GBSaskia Olde Wolbers, NLAmalia Pica, ARMaaike Schoorel, NLPilvi Takala, FISue Tompkins, GBAntonio Vega Macotela, MXHelen Verhoeven, NLJimmy RobertUntitled (Shroud)2013Inkjet print60 × 45,8 cm166 / 167Mark Boulos has filmed Marxist insurgentsin the Philippines, oil guerrillas in theNiger Delta, commodities traders in Chicago,Christian mystics in Syria, and Islamicjihadists in London and New York. In hismulti-screen documentary video installationshe investigates the space between abstractconcepts and material reality. Drawn tothe extreme states of political militancy andreligious ecstasy, Boulos examines beliefsespoused with such transcendent convictionthat, for those who hold them, theimpossible seems real.The work of Yael Davids focuses on thenarrative character that is typical ofdocumentation and repetition. Throughdocumentation, Davids attempts to uncovertraces of the past. Using materials likewood, glass and fabrics, and with a stricteconomy of gesture and an ongoing interestin the notion of performance, Davids’installations attempt at turning memories ofephemeral, fleeting presence into a definiteshape. Davids presents installations thatrelate to the body – both to that of theartist/performer and to that of the viewer.Born and raised in Israel, Yael Davidsembraces both, the conflicted political historyof a nation-in-the -making, and her ownindividual biography.Jimmy Robert takes his cues from culturalfigures of the recent past – avant-gardewriters, filmmakers, visual artists – whowere not only pioneers in their respectiveart forms but also deft at subtly registeringthe traumas and effects of their socialconditions. Robert’s concern for the body –both personal and political – in additionto his interest in the poetic potential ofephemeral materials unites much of his work,which ranges in media from photography,film, and video to sculpture andperformance works that value gesture andchance over elaborate choreography.