We are happy to share that our fellow Ina van Zyl will open her personal exhibition 'Briefly Wildly Happy' at Bernard Jordan gallery in Paris.

A recent painting by Ina van Zyl, Goblet, from 2023, reveals [..] this fundamental link between botany and humans. In this painting, the truncated genitals and thighs of a woman, unctuously painted in flesh colors and filling the entire pictorial space like a kind of landscape, can also be seen as a flower on its stem. The hairless lips, in shades of deep purple, can remind us of the petals of a flower about to bloom, while the dark shadows that run along the inner thighs constitute the stem.

(text by Diana Quinby)

The exhibition will take place from Jan 18 to Feb 17

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Photo: Ina van Zyl, Diana, 2022 , Oil on canvas , 50 ✕ 50 cm