Fahmy Malinovsky
44 rue de Sévigné, 75003 Paris
Presentation of the gallery
Founded in 2022 by Alicia Fahmy and Ludmilla Malinovsky, the gallery was initially itinerant before settling at 44 rue de Sévigné. Its programming is dedicated to young creation and emerging artists of all generations. Its focus is on those who invent missing representations in order to question stories of filiation and transmissions that have been prevented. Cultural hybridities, globalization, new languages and domesticity are the main themes of the gallery's work.
Présentation du projet
The booth takes the form of a diorama. It is dedicated to a new series of works in homage to Kurdish women fighters. The artist looks at the new forms that struggles can take once weapons have been laid down: how do they become part of ordinary life, femininity, traditional knowledge, daily routines and care?
Bahar Kocabey's installations, traversed by the elements of fire and water, depict Kurdish landscapes whose historical, natural or imaginary status has not been established. Human and non-human presences appear, the indecipherable alphabet of an elusive people.
Over the centuries, in the relief of these disputed lands, populations have tried to find refuges in which to resist and protect themselves from the many ecocides forcing them to move. In her charcoal landscapes and studies of water and vegetation, the artist also inscribes a more intimate, familial and carnal relationship with this land. The land, steeped in age-old tales and myths, also contains memories of childhood, the vast terrain of the family story and the land that nurtured and cared for her.