Skyler Chen, Afternoon Tea With My Favourite Magazine, 2021. HIRÆTH: PRIOR Art Space x Phillips.
Phillips is pleased to announce HIRÆTH, a virtual selling exhibition in collaboration with PRIOR Art Space, featuring works by Ziad Kaki, Giorgio Celin, Skyler Chen, Mona Broschar, and more. PRIOR Art Space works with and promotes emerging artists to enrich the contemporary art landscape by providing a platform for artists from historically underrepresented backgrounds. With locations in multiple cities, PRIOR additionally displays work from the Del Arco and Cuperior collections among others, and produces monthly exhibitions with partner artists and galleries. The exhibition explores themes of selfhood, belonging and the concept of the home. HIRÆTH is now online and available to view from 17 March to 10 April. We invited six artists to give us a behind-the-scenes look at their works and speak about wider themes in their practices.
Navot Miller
Navot Miller (b.1991) explores the intersections of queer encounters, everyday experiences, and intimate moments through a visual language that extends banality into the realms of religion and desire. Through his paintings and short videos, Miller creates montages of images across mediums that muse on and develop an idea of layering and space through collage and flatness, tragedy and positivity. Recent exhibitions include Everyone I’ve Ever Known, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Chronicles 3, Droste Gallery, Berlin, and Misa Discoveries, König Gallery, Berlin.
Mona Broschár
Mona Broschár (b.1985) is a painter based in Leipzig, Germany, whose work upcycles quotidian objects into highly artificial, stylized, and sexualized objects of desire. Her scaled-up everyday items are inspired by pop and consumer culture, at once reflecting magazine glossiness and an inevitable sugar crash to hyperreal effect. In this way, the artist addresses distance and touch between object and viewer, digital representation and the world of the painting. Her work has been featured in recent exhibitions at Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt, and A&O Gallery Lab, Leipzig.
Skyler Chen
Taiwan-born Skyler Chen (b.1982) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines his Asian queer identify and the experiences of living on three different continents. Now based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Chen’s work ranges from large acrylics on canvas, to prints, sculptures, video installations, and children’s book illustrations. Recent exhibitions include L.E.S. CRIB, New York, a group show at Serindia Blue Gallery, New York, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, and Jo-hs, Mexico City, as well as 2022 solo shows at Platform China, Beijing and Massimo De Carlo, Paris.
Giorgio Celin
Known for his expansive figurative paintings and themes of migration, nostalgia, and forging intimacy, Colombian artist Giorgio Ermes Celin (b.1986) lives and studies between Naples and Barcelona. Celin casts a critical eye on displacement and belonging through his practice, at once capturing the singular stories of migration against the geographical backdrop of the marginalized, gestalt concept. The artist has exhibited his work at galleries and instutions around the world, including the Musem of Contemporary Art, Rome, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, Fondazione Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Venice, and residencies in Colombia and Italy.
Ziad Kaki
Ziad Kaki is a London-based Saudi Arabian artist and current MA student at Central Saint Martins. Characterized by intense colors, Ziad’s paintings create artificial effects within the subjects’ figure, highlighting an approach to the human form that emphasizes transparency and interaction. The artist employs a staging that integrates various figures within each painting as cinematic screenshots directed by the movement of an imagined lens, leaving the viewer to fill in a narrative. Ziad is inspired by the effects of the camera in contemporary life, and how technology impacts the relationship between artist and audience. His work has been exhibited at recent group shows at APT Gallery, Deptford, Apiary Studio, Hackney, and Ahlam Gallery, Riyadh.
Johnson Ocheja
Johnson Ocheja is a painter from Kogi State, Nigeria. Entirely self-taught, the artist depicts scenes of Black subjects with a focus on consciousness and notions of beauty, often using an impasto technique with his fingers to produce marks inspired by the cultural practice of scarification. His use of deep blue pigment imparts his portraits with an otherworldly feel while rendering his subjects and their textures extremely present. Ocheja recently exhibited his first solo show in the United States at Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville.
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