Amir Nave

Artist’s Statement:

I would like to examine emotional alienation and detachment within the digital space developed out of capitalism, by observing the impossibility of spontaneous communication, since today most of our communication is mediated through screens.
Theodor Adorno wrote that the strengthening of capitalistic values would extinguish our emotional abilities to adapt to self-perception and new perspectives.
I would like to interrogate this, and ask: could the lack of the spontaneous in the digital encounter generate a new form of emotional expression?
I would like to bring up this subject, which forms one of my generic lines of questioning as an artist, in formal meetings, and let the ideas that emerge from them influence the social and emotional dynamics of the figures in my paintings.

• Amir nave

Employing the intimacy of works with a smaller scale at the beginning of his career (including predominantly drawings, semi-automatic inscriptions in ink, pencil and felt pen), the artist has used an array of increasingly larger formats while opening himself to painting and canvas as a medium.
For Amir Nave, the canvas goes beyond its function as a medium to aspire towards a mental space where pictural creation derivates from traditional principals of painting.

Submitted by In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc