JWAN YOSEF: INTIMACIES Book Launch

Saturday, Jan 31

5:00pm – 8:00pm

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Book Launch at CULTUREEDIT Gallery Saturday Jan 31 5-8 PM Enjoy drinks generously provided by JUNESHINE Intimacies, showcases work by renowned contemporary visual artist Jwan Yosef. This book features new and earlier pieces from the artist’s extensive oeuvre and comprises three bodies of work: Touch, Object and Brush. Yosef’s works are resistant to formal categorisation, sitting at the intersection between painting and sculpture. His unconventional treatment of paintings includes pulling canvases off of their stretchers such that images are crumpled and distorted, and the structures supporting the paintings are made visible. This playful handling of materials contributes to the tactile, embodied presence inherent to the experience of his work while lending a sly disruptive force to the pieces. The artist attributes his compositional and material subversiveness to his own marginalised identity, stating that: “Both my job as an artist and my experience as a queer man compel me to look for and reconsider the stories and meanings society imposes on material, objects, and people.” Indeed, the artist’s queerness is reflected throughout his work— beyond depictions of homoerotic desire, the pieces have their rhythm and repeated language of marginality and subversion. ABOUT JWAN YOSEF: Jwan Yosef (b.1984) is a conceptual visual artist whose practice challenges conventional form and encompasses themes including marginalisation, belonging, intimacy, and queer sexuality. He has been profiled and exhibited globally in solo and group exhibitions for nearly two decades. Born in Syria, he moved to Sweden in his youth, where he eventually obtained a BFA from Konstfack University College of Arts in Stockholm. He received an MFA from Central Saint Martins in London after his studies in Stockholm. It was in London that he was also awarded The Threadneedle Prize for Exhibiting Artist (2013) and the Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art (2013), as well as becoming a founding member of The Bomb Factory Art Foundation (est. 2015). The artist currently resides and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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