In Situ – fabienne leclerc
Amir Nave , Israel
"River Folds"
Amir Nave, From the body of the mortal, a split splits toward the other side, 2023, Encre sur papier, 27 x 20 cm © Amir Nave, courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
The main question driving Amir Nave’s artistic research is fundamentally motivated by many approaches to elaborate one distinct thing – Is it possible to deliver something valuable from the present to eternity? Questions about time, space, boundaries, seclusion, power relationships between people and within a person, trying to break down everything that is unequivocal, are building the framework for the main subject studied by the artist, the pain of consciousness.
In his process, Amir Nave first destroys everything that represents a value, place, morality or limit for him, until all ‘life’ is gone and only chaos remains. In his works, destruction tells more than construction and the struggle within his painting is connected to the relationship between emptiness and remove ‘the’ fullness. Emptiness being outside the realm of language can provoke creativity because it is our way of describing something that we cannot fully conceive of. The emptiness on his works also participates in focusing attention on the body and particularly on the head, the central point of his painting. From here, the artist attempts to rebuild the world once again. There are faded landscapes, in which figures are walking, whose body is a bag of needs – allegories of the decline of the decadent human society in our time. His figures aim to represent the desire to experience the world, for better or worse. The body is an hourglass and the attempt to confront these springs from the desire not to accept it as absolute but to define it as derived from consciousness.
Solo show of Amir Nave
From May 25th to July 19th, 2025
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 25 May 2025 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Opening of the show – In Situ – fabienne leclerc
93230 Romainville, France 01 53 79 06 12 www.insituparis.fr
The gallery
Founded by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, In Situ began in the 13th district of Paris alongside a group of galleries in the rue Louise Weiss. After seven years in the 6th, the gallery moved to the Marais in 2013 before opening a new space at 14 boulevard de la Chapelle in January 2017. As a founding gallery of the Komunuma project in the Grand Paris suburbs, In Situ - fabienne leclerc joigned colleagues with diverse public and private interests in contemporary art with 500 square meters of newly renovated historic industrial spaces which opened in October 2019.
The ambition of In Situ - fabienne leclerc is to promote young and emerging artists on the French and international art scene, and to support established artists in the long term. In Situ - fabienne leclerc strives to defend the work of its artists in the gallery, in fairs and biennials throughout the world as well as in museums and institutions.
Gallery artists
Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Andrea Blum, Lynne Cohen - Estate, Patrick Corillon, Martin Dammann, Marina De Caro, Mark Dion, Lars Fredrikson - Estate, Meschac Gaba, Daniele Genadry, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Amir Nave, Haifeng Ni, Otobong Nkanga, Constance Nouvel, Florence Paradeis, Gerald Petit, Hesam Rahmanian, Vivien Roubaud, The Blue Noses, Laurent Tixador, Patrick Tosani, Patrick van Caeckenbergh, Marcel van Eeden, We Are The Painters, Dominique Zinkpè
