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Galería Fermay is pleased to present Male Male, a solo exhibition by Damaris Pan (Mallabia, 1983).

The title of the exhibition makes reference to Martin Kippenberger’s series ‘Lieber Maler, male Mir’ (1981) that translates into ‘Dear painter, paint for me’. In German male is the imperative and the first- person present-tense of the verb paint. In English it translates as masculine. In Spanish male shares the same root as bad, as in badly done, bad form or good bad. Male Male functions both as a semantic artefact as well as a recurring mantra that resonates in the artist’s mind when she is …