Ari David (b. Romania) lives and works in Rotterdam. David works with writing, performance, moving images, and textiles. Their work explores the complex ways in which private biographies and collective narratives shape bodies. They see their work as a way to encounter the world, to understand how the social is inscribed in the body. As a way to experience the rich texture of the ordinary, the rawness of feeling, the tenderness of intimacy, and the uncertainty of lived life. As a way of staying with uncomfortable experiences of displacement and inadequacy. These approaches inform each-other, creating space for reflection and tension around themes of community, solidarity, and dissent.

Their works have been shown at WET Rotterdam, Available and the Rat, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De Appel, Charlotte Street Foundation, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Salonul de Proiecte, tranzit.ro/ Cluj. Since 2022, they co-run an other world project space in Zuid Rotterdam.



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