In 2021, artist/activist/filmaker Joey Soloway inspired and assembled the following presentation highlighting works and insights that would define an exciting new direction for Iva's oeuvre:
Iva: "My paintings give testament to a conscious and deliberate act, an act that rejects
the hierarchical relationship between painter and surface with the following
consequences: to be in the paintings rather than in front of them; to rely on my
entire body and “feeling” rather than my aesthetic judgment; to witness rather than
control; to privilege the stain over a discrete mark; to reach for something or
someone in the dark. The tapestry paintings are the material manifestation of me
saying “fuck it” to a patriarchal system, history and a state of mind. The Pompeii gray
paintings though stretched constitute a deepening revolt. I feel kinship with
shamanistic rock painters as I scratch the dry, sculptural terrain of the paintings with
brushes that have lost their hair."
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