The Flow: Shiva Ahmadi, Yacine Fall, Fidelis Joseph

Fridman Gallery is honored to present a group exhibition featuring three singular artists, Shiva Ahmadi, Yacine Fall and Fidelis Joseph, who mine the materiality of their respective media to investigate the human condition and our relationship to Earth. 

The centerpiece of the show is Shiva Ahmadi’s stunning stop-motion animation Marooned composed of 5,600 hand-drawn watercolors. It depicts a group of figures digging large rocks from the ground and hauling them over a hill to construct a pathway in the ocean towards a marooned oil tanker. Menacing ghouls appear in greater and greater numbers and, just as the pathway is nearing completion, maliciously circumvent the creatures who constructed it, reaching the oil tanker and swiftly steering it beyond the frame.

Yacine Fall’s ceramics and horsehide sculptures, appearing before Ahmadi’s video projection, provide three-dimensional, materialized expression to the animated rocks and laboring bodies.

Fidelis Joseph’s large-scale oils return the artists’ transformation of natural materials to the two-dimensional plane, capturing the multiplicity of emotions that result from our existential struggle for survival in harmony with the material conditions that have shaped us.