If You Want a Horrible Place Say So

Hezi Cohen Gallery is pleased to present 'If You Want a Horrible Place Say So', a new solo exhibition by Tsibi Geva, opening on Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 8 pm.

The exhibition will feature a selection of paintings from a large body of work produced by Geva in recent years. These works are “painting events”; they are created as an open-ended process, a journey to an undefined, undetermined destination. The works on view include abstract paintings as well as representations of the body and of physical and mental relationships. 

The paintings do not converge into a “theme.” Rather, they present a destabilizing, undermining impulse, an undercurrent which is often contrary to the images depicted. At the heart of these works is an erupting libidinal movement which splits, takes apart, and forms connections in unexpected manners. Geva’s paintings reject stylistic preconceptions and offer instead an act of painting in search of meaning, encompassing associations, rifts, and self-defacement; a painting undermining itself.