Dafna Maimon
Screenings
Modern Mothers

Dafna Maimon ( FI/IL b. 1982) living in Berlin works in performance, video and 'immersive performance-installations’ focusing on memory, autobiography, trauma and play. Mischievous and absurd definitions of selfhood and the body manifest themselves in her fragmented narratives. Interested in directing an experience in a collective workshop-type of way, Dafna tests the limits of stereotypes while facilitating creative therapeutic techniques that place value on empathy. Her practice overall highlights the very same elements it materializes through – affect based constructions and their economies. Maimon has shown her work in institutions and art spaces such as Kunst-Werke (Berlin), PS1 Moma (New York), Mahj Jewish Museum (Paris), Kim Center Contemproary Art, (Riga), Gallery Wedding (Berlin), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Centre for Contemporary Arts Uzajdowski (Warsaw), Lilith Performance Studio (Malmö), Based in Berlin, Crikoteka, Tadeusz Kantor Center (Krakau), HAU 2 (Berlin), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, W139 (Amsterdam), 1646 (The Hague), New Orleans Film Society with Deltaworkers (New Orleans) and Le Magasin (Grenoble). She has been artist in resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin 2015), IASPIS (Stockholm 2014), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC 2012) and at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, (Maine 2008). Maimon is a founding member of the artist collective and online TV-Network Conglomerate.