Ana Benaroya, Beneath the Paper Moon, 2022

This poster, featuring Ana Benaroya’s ‘Beneath The Paper Moon’ (2022), was produced for the artist’s 2022 solo show at Hospitalet, Sweden. Benaroya’s paintings and drawings dismantle the power dynamics of gender stereotypes, while also offering what can easily be described as a joyful apotheosis of lesbian sexuality. Her most recent figures disport across eight individual canvases, one diptych and three drawings while refusing ready- made categories of normative desire. For this exhibition “Beneath a Paper Moon,” Benaroya has made the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey her putative protagonists and Ella Fitzgerald’s “It’s Only a Paper Moon” her title song. Fitzgerald’s warble vocalizes a good deal of the riotous energy and exuberant mystery embedded in Benaroya’s paintings of powerful women: “Yes, it’s only a canvas sky/Hanging over a muslin tree/But it wouldn’t be make-believe/If you believed in me.” The rapturous visuals for a new mythology are born.

Year: 2022
Size: 16.5 x 23.4 inches (42.0 x 59.4 cm)
Framed: Sold unframed