Though this present simply got here down at Mendes Wooden DM in São Paulo, we needed to point out one of many standout exhibits of the summer season in Ebecho Muslimova‘s Rumors. The present had a superb use of area, with spacious murals and work intertwined all through the present. The present was concurrently proven with Muslimova’s Whispers in Zurich.
Rumors and Whispers is a two-part presentation of Ebecho Muslimova’s current sequence of work throughout Mendes Wooden DM’s São Paulo gallery and Bernheim Gallery in Zürich. A transatlantic sport of phone, the exhibition first opens in Brazil with Muslimova’s Rumors suite, adopted two weeks later by Whispers in Switzerland, every portray a response to at least one on the earlier opening. Like the kids’s sport, phone, the place folks whisper a phrase or phrase throughout a bunch in a successive chain, typically to find comical misunderstandings on the finish, this physique of labor tracks the shifting persona of Muslimova’s signature character Fatebe. An abundantly curious and unabashedly liberated persona, Fatebe seems throughout all the work in several kinds, mischievously bursting into some frames and, in some cases, bodily embodying a portal between them, translating or responding to the joke of a earlier portray. From a stage to the boudoir, a park to a gallery, a New York skyline to an imagined panorama, these seemingly disparate areas are the playground for Fatebe to discover the interaction between psyche and atmosphere and replicate on the art-making course of.
