After founding her eponymous gallery in Seattle in 2012, Mariane Ibrahim inaugurated a space in Chicago in 2019, affirming her commitment to an ambitious, international artistic program. In September 2021, she opened her first European venue in Paris, followed in February 2023 with a third space in Mexico City.
Since its creation, the gallery has successfully supported established and emerging artists such as Amoako Boafo, Clotilde Jiménez, Eva Jospin, Ayana V. Jackson, Zohra Opoku, and more recently, Lorraine O’Grady. Present at the most prestigious contemporary art fairs worldwide, the gallery has distinguished itself with award-winning presentations, attesting to the quality of its programming and the recognition it inspires within the art world.
The mission of Mariane Ibrahim, a Franco-Somali art dealer and gallerist, is to champion and promote the diversity of global artistic practices, with a particular focus on Africa and its diaspora. In 2016, she appeared on Artnet’s list of promising art dealers under 40. In 2022, she was included in ArtReview’s list of the 100 most influential figures in the art world today. She has also been featured in various media, including FT, WSJ, Le Monde, Marie Claire, Vogue, and Kinfolk.
Image: Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Once upon a midnight dreary. Installation View. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim.
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Yukimasa Ida builds his paintings through decisive brushstrokes, layering matter onto the canvas to render faces, whether of people close to him or strangers encountered during his travels. These portraits simultaneously convey a sense of vulnerability, marked by the impossibility of truly confronting these figures face to face. At the same time, his recurrent use of red infuses the works with a contagious inner intensity. Imbued with memories of both near and distant presences, Yukimasa Ida’s work lingers in the viewer’s mind like the image of a glowing fire, at once magnetic and perilous. Through facial abstraction, Ida opens a perspective into the visceral depictions of the psyche. Each painting explores the subject's internal state, inviting viewers to confront the complexity of human experience.
The absence of distinction between foreground and background draws the eye to the subtle cues of face figuration: the curve of an ear or shadow of a lip, that anchors one's gaze. The artist’s charged color palette, built over a canvas primed with black, amplifies the somatic intensities of his sculptural oil impasto technique that holds the memory of knife marks and wet-on-wet blending. In this way, Ida’s canvases behave like skin—vulnerable to scars, erosion, and inscription. In Ida Yukimasa’s work, the canvas becomes mnemonic flesh, a surface that absorbs what perception cannot fully hold: emotion, disorientation, psychic residue. The power of his work lies in its contradiction: while the image dissolves; the material endures. It is the impossibility of permanence, where memory flickers and decays like a flame, yet everything leaves a trace.
Flaming Memory will be on view in Chicago from August 30 to October 25, 2025.
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