FRACTURED
Artist: Yuli Aloni Primor
SOLO SHOW ZAZ10TS GALLERY
March 26 - June 21, 2025
10 TIMES SQUARE | 1441 Broadway, New York, NY 10018
In Fractured, Yuli Aloni Primor situates an art of rupture at the symbolic center of the contemporary city. Installed in the gallery and projected on the ZAZ Corner digital billboard in Times Square for a limited time, the exhibition places an intimate visual language inside the accelerated rhythm of public urban space. The two contexts do not illustrate each other but exist in productive friction: the private made monumental, the monumental made vulnerable.
The work draws on two traditions of repair — Kintsugi, the Japanese practice in which broken ceramics are reconstituted with gold until the fracture becomes the most radiant element of the object, and Tikkun, the Jewish ethical imperative to mend a broken world. Together they form not a philosophy of consolation but a politics of visibility: an insistence that the seam be acknowledged rather than erased.
Working between digital technologies and oil painting, Aloni Primor constructs a feminine mythology suspended between personal history and cultural narrative, between psychological interiority and public surface. Identity here is neither stable nor given. It is continually negotiated, fractured, and rebuilt — shaped by the tension between external expectation and inner experience.
Within a city that continues, almost against its own velocity, to insist on gestures of human presence, Fractured proposes that repair is not restoration. It is transformation — and the fracture, made visible, becomes the work itself.
Ylona Aron on ZAZ Corner’s In Between | March 26 - April 30, 2026
Alongside the exhibition Fractured at the gallery, a selection of works will be featured on the ZAZ Corner’s In Between Programming. The artwork is displayed for 15 seconds at a time on a large LED billboard in the heart of Times Square. Location: 41st Street and 7th Avenue, New York, NY.
About The Artist
Yuli Aloni Primor is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Her practice engages questions of identity, memory, and technological transformation through a feminist lens. Moving between physical and digital forms, she constructs fragile yet assertive visual languages that examine how contemporary subjectivity is shaped by displacement, cultural pressure, and systems of connectivity.
Aloni Primor is Scholar-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center. She has exhibited at Mana Contemporary and Ethan Cohen Gallery. Her recent work explores the relationship between fracture and repair in the formation of feminine mythologies within accelerated urban and digital environments.
Courtesy of the Artist
Artist Statement
My practice moves across sculpture, painting, video, and installation, using the figure as both subject and material. I work in the lineage of feminist art, asking what it means for a woman to move from object to subject — from the embodied poetics of Ana Mendieta and Kiki Smith, through Donna Haraway’s cyborg and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism, into a present in which keeping pace with technology has become its own form of survival.
The automaton has long haunted my sculptural language. I am drawn to figures that fracture and reconstitute themselves — bodies that carry their damage visibly, that refuse the performance of seamlessness. A woman’s identity is never finished. It is continually constructed and reconstructed, shaped by memory, by cultural pressure, and by the systems she inhabits whether she chooses them or not.
My own life has been shaped by the continual making of home from broken pieces: moving between continents, languages, and cultural worlds that do not always hold together. I ask how images can cross borders when bodies cannot, how we carry what is shattered and still insist on building something vital.
The fracture is not failure. It is where the interior becomes visible — where the private mythology of a woman presses outward into form. To make art about womanhood as a woman is, in itself, a political gesture.
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