Presenting an exclusive giclée print by Yulia Iosilzon produced in partnership with Sapling Gallery. This is the artist’s first-ever print.
Yulia Iosilzon’s Rafflesia draws us into an enchanting marshland. A serene face guides us into a polyphony of kicking frogs, reaching vines, and an opening flower. Bubbles of frogspawn bursting with amphibian life punctuate the surface like stars in a watery sky. The largest flowers on earth, rafflesia are the living embodiment of monstrous beauty. While they look glorious, in a bid to attract flies as pollinators, the parasitic genus emits some of the most terrible scents imaginable.
The artist created this image during her solo exhibition at Sapling Gallery in 2022. The curator Sonja Teszler wrote a piece of fiction as the exhibition text. The resulting story ‘Frogspawn’ is a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter,’ in which a princess lives a cursed life between frog and human states. In Teszler’s version, the female protagonist embraces her hybrid existence. Iosilzon has incorporated a handwritten sentence from ‘Frogspawn’ into this edition.
‘In the marsh, we are simply organisms sipping from one primordial soup. Here in the mud, the beautiful and the monstrous can resolve into a whole. We can be amphibian, drifting like frogspawn in radical synthesis, flies and all.’
Details
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm.
38 x 27 cm, in a signed edition of 100.
Yulia Iosilzon is an Israeli-born contemporary artist known for her captivating, intricate works that explore themes of identity, transformation, and the human form. Drawing inspiration from mythology, folklore, and her own cultural heritage, Iosilzon combines traditional techniques with a contemporary, surreal sensibility. Her paintings often depict hybrid creatures, mysterious landscapes, and emotionally charged figures, inviting viewers into a world where the boundaries between the human and natural worlds blur. Iosilzon’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions and is celebrated for its vivid colour palettes, dreamlike compositions, and thought-provoking narratives. Through her art, she invites reflection on the complexity of existence and the beauty found in both the grotesque and the sublime.
Iosilzon is based in London and has exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group shows, earning recognition for her unique visual language and her ability to convey complex emotional narratives through her art.
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