Empire of Meaning, Ink on Paper
Odonchimeg Davaadorj has exhibited internationally in Paris, Rome, Mongolia and is an awardee of the prestigious ADAGP Prize Salon de Montrouge and Le Galerie Premier Regard, France. Her figurative depictions offer an intense, enigmatic and poetic exploration of the body, life and the world beyond via small scale works on paper. Born in Mongolia, Davaadorj's childhood influences and affinity for her land, its mysticism and power may be discerned in her fantastical ink renderings.
Davaadorj graduated with honors from the The École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris Cergy, France and the Institut Bohemia, Prague, Czech Republic. She was selected for the Biennale of Young International European Artists (2019-2021) in Montrouge, France and will have a forthcoming solo exhibition with Drawing Now, the prestigious contemporary drawing art fair in Paris.
Self-Portrait (Horse), Ink on Paper
EEJ (Mother), Book, Ink on Canvas, Multimedia, 8 pages.
Take Me Outside, Ink on Paper, Thread, Perforation and Collage.
Odonchimeg Davaadorj left her native Mongolia at the age of 17 to the Czech Republic where she attended The Institut Bohemia in Prague, and then later to The École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris Cergy in France. Her rigorous training coupled with her diverse cultural experiences have colored her multi-media practice in drawing, painting, sculpting, video, performance, poetry and textiles. Davaadorj explains, "I think that you get to a point where you feel a work has to come out. If it's a poem, I have to write it down. If I can't write, I have to move, whether I dance or draw.”
Davaadorj often makes references in her work about her childhood growing up in a remote village in Mongolia as well as the land/earth as a powerful sacred source of power. Her figurative ink drawings or embroidered compositions often evoke a sense of melancholic nostalgia for her motherland, the animals, people of her youth. They often feature the color red, signifying blood and life, via ink or threads that weave through her drawings like a vein-like artery that brings together and breathes life into the disparate parts into a unified body.
She prefers to utilize a simple color palette of red, blue and black, in order for the viewer to primarily focus on her lines. The lines form silhouettes of her subjects, suggesting both the form coming into being as well as to convey their essence and representation of universal themes relating to life, death, sexuality and existence.
Embroidered Thought, Ink on Paper, Embroidery, Perforation
Solitary Man, Ink on Paper
Hope Giver I, Ink on Paper, Perforation
Hope Giver I, Ink on Paper, Perforation (DETAIL)
Untitled, Ink on Paper
Untitled, Ink on Paper with Perforation.
Untitled, Ink on Paper with Perforation.
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