Ebecho Mustimova @ David Zwirner

This selection of new work features Ebecho Muslimova’s character Fatebe, a plump and exuberant personality who subsumes the neuroses and anxieties of her creator.  Muslimova’s surrogate shamelessly manipulates her naked body into unimaginable contortions and is found in slapstick and at times abject situations. Set in fantastical painted landscapes or rendered solo in flowing brushwork, Fatebe explodes the social expectations of the female body through brazen displays of sexuality, vulnerability, and humour. As the artist observes, ‘This performance, this slippage through the challenges I constantly make for [Fatebe], is what interests me and pushes the search for new scenarios.”