28.3-12.7.19
28.3-12.7.19 | The Moon’s Reflection on the Asphalt
Beit Ha'Gefen Art Gallery In Collaboration with Studio of Her Own
Beit Hagefen Arab-Jewish Cultural Center | 2 Hagefen Street | Haifa
Sun-Thur: 15:00-10:00
Fri: 10:00-14:00
Saturday 6.4-Saturday Gallery: Tour of the exhibition with director and curator of Beit Hagefen art Gallery
Artists: Marah Zoubi, Wadia Ka’abiya, Linda Taha, Amira Fode, Tamar Tzadok, Ruth Kestenbaum Ben- Dov, Tal Michaelis, Shlomit Etgar, Nasreen Fahmawe, Lamis Shahout, Yael Serlin, Bat El Elfasi, Shulamit Etsion, Nasrin Abu Baker, Ayelet Dora Saperia ,Hala Abu Kishek, Dana Bitew Yoseph, Moriah Eder Plaksin, Lea Laukstein, Amira Kasim Ziyan, Anat Rozenson Ben-hur, Shany Abramovich
Curators: Hadas Glazer and Yael Messer
Group Facilitators: Nawal Abu Essa, Sarki Golani and Raya Bruckenthal
The exhibition The Moon’s Reflection on the Asphalt marks a yearlong activity of women artists who have met throughout the year in three cities – Haifa, Jerusalem and Lod – as part of the Women's Leadership in Culture project. From the outset, the process was defined along the lines of similarities and differences between the participants. The artists come from all walks of life, and include religious, secular, traditional, Muslim, Jewish, Druze, mothers, single and married women. However, at the same time, they all share the experience of facing the tension between art and the power of everyday life settings and demands.
The exhibition centers around conflictual encounters between clashing forces, striving to achieve an impossible equilibrium. The similar and the different, the uniform and the fragmented, the foreign and the familiar offer an underlying narrative for the entire exhibition, as well as a prism through which each individual work can be read
The exhibition draws its name, The Moon’s Reflection on the Asphalt, from an image that appears in Shlomit Etgar's work. The image holds a poetic and material tension that brings together two disparate elements, one with heavenly and mythological connotations and the other earthly and prosaic. The reflection of the moonlight on an asphalt surface is an impossible phenomenon that cannot occur in reality, but can exist in philosophical and artistic realms that break through the boundaries of everyday life. In this exhibition we wish to show that the rational and physical unfeasibility, which generates tension between different objects, elements and materials, does not necessarily lead to categorical separation, but rather summons a new and ambivalent space, where familiar definitions and objections dissolve
The exhibition is organized as part of the Women Cultural Leadership program, initiated by Yeala Hazut Yanuka and Zipi Mizrachi
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