Faile American, b. 1975 & 1976

The exhibition revolves around the concept of Spring. Entering into a new season signifies a moment to look into arts that reflect on our immediate environment. Artists included in the exhibition are driven by curiosity for the urban and natural world and the intricate ways we are connected to it. With the new season, our renewed state of mind suggests that we are open to serendipity. The result is that we stumble upon new behaviours, thoughts, movements or ways of being.

Danysz Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition devoted to portraits. As the exhibition title suggests, the exhibition’s main preoccupations are the meaning, the ideology and the subversive power of portraits. What is the role of portraits now, in an image-saturated world, when selfies on social media took over the popular imagination?

In this exhibition, Faile explores new graphic possibilities, introduces new themes, plays with cultural text borrowed from Disney and with elements taken from their personal lives, such as vinyls and...