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Untitled (After Man Ray)
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Dana Darvish

Untitled (After Man Ray), 2015

TechniquePhotography
Size80 x 120 cm
AvailabilityAvailable
Donation70%
USD 5,000
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Dana Darvish’s work is characterized by a dark, monochromatic palette and centers on a static female figure undergoing fragmentation — or perhaps suspended in a continuous state of transformation, unable to fully emerge or escape. The image, created using the technique of montage, is composed of images the artist selected from ready-made photographs and films. From these “archaeological” layers, and through the interplay between the tangible and the ephemeral, a new, constructed, and anonymous identity emerges.

About Dana Darvish

Dana Darvish is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, collage, and moving image. Her practice explores themes of identity, memory, transformation, and fragmentation through layered visual compositions that combine archival materials, found imagery, and cinematic references.

She received her BFA from the Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College (HaMidrasha) and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at Art Cube Artists' Studios, Arad Contemporary Art Center, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Her work has been supported by grants from the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts and the Rabinovich Art Foundation, and is included in private and museum collections.