Liat Yossifor: The Gray Feather a Thrush Lost

68projects is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based Israeli artist Liat Yossifor in Berlin. The exhibition will coincide with the artist's Berlin Fellowship at the renowned Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V. 

The poem by Adam Zagajewski, from which the title of the show was selected, consists of lines about normalcy and beauty that are interrupted by descriptions of brutality. Yossifor's new paintings negotiate rough paint handling with lyrical line work as well as natural movements and their deviations. She achieves this by drawing and scoring into thick textural masses of paint. Dark grays dominate this newest series, which also showcases a thickness never seen  before within her practice. The thicker the structure, the deeper the markings left within. The gray for Yossifor is not meant as an aesthetic choice, but rather as an outcome of complementary colors cancelling one another through the intensive process of gestural painting. For us, whatever color and gesture are lost through this process are what we, in turn, can gain by allowing ourselves to consider our own markings in life and moments of erasure.