Ana Karkar @ Almine Rech

The exhibition, Whole Cookie, unveils a new series of figurative paintings by Ana Karkar, and an installation piece comprised of video, sculpture and literature. Composed as a temple to eroticism, it explores and universalises the many complex paradoxes of Ishtar, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of both love and war, as well as fertility and sensuality. As the goddess of paradox, Ishtar is the model of unity in multiplicity.