Lizza May David: "UNTITLED PAINTING #1–∞"

1335 Mabini Gallery
January 11 - February 22, 2020















Out of the ruins of modernity emerges a signal of light: the non-human entity Diwata leaves polygonal traces, turns the forms of satellite solar panels into dysfunctional abstract visions, accompanied by a rhythm of gesture making. A minimal note extracted and put into scale, transforming into subsonic frequencies, a memory of stargazing.

The exhaustion of fuel machines, composing soundscapes of constant alert, lulling each other into the sleep of the displaced. Abundance and debt playing the never-ending game between dream and reality. What she knows operates as violence, a cruel gaze, addressed only to the sincere ones. -LMD


Lizza May David’s multidisciplinary practices involves autobiographical narratives relating to identity, memory, knowledge and its loss. In her paintings she responds to current discourses through re-evaluating painting in relation to changing subjectivities. David studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and University of Arts Berlin, Germany.