Wings Of Love
Solo exhibition by Majnuna / Hila Cohen
The Jaffa Well, Jaffa (2022)
At the heart of the installation is a window. A curtain decorated with gold coins hangs at its back as a reference to Gargush, a traditional hat of the Yemeni henna ceremony.
The video work, located within an interior space, is inspired by the song "Wings of Love." A series of photographs and a hologram are displayed around the window.
"Wings of Love" was created following meetings with 2 canonical artists in the world of Yemeni culture - the choreographer Ilana Cohen and the singer Tsvia Abarbanel.
Time Space
Group exhibition, in collaboration with
BUSH collective
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Tel Aviv (2022)
We experience time in different rhythms, especially in moments of transition. It’s as if these differences create a new dimension, where movement across the axis of time is possible and the transformation of thought and imagination is visible, affecting even what seems to be constant and universal.
Time Space borrows from and interacts with spacetime in the world of physics, where time and space meet, where the boundaries delineating them become fluid and the set of acceptable possibilities expands.
It is the product of an artist incubator focusing on the interaction between the identities and everyday lives of the collective’s communities and the time space we live and operate within. The exhibition brings together questions of identity and that physical concept, reexamining these questions; the works combine various media, alongside performance pieces.
Artists:
Yakira Ament, Yuval Naor, Hanan Offner, Niv Fridman, Noa Simhayof Shahaf, Danielle Liberman, Ephraim Wasse, Lobna Awidat, Itay Matan, Neta Moses, Lee Shalev, Alina Yakirevitch
Omry Hefetz and Rom Sheratzky, Eliya David and Yogev Amsalem, Nadi Nadav Yoel
Offset
Solo exhibition by Noam Palombo
Artspace, Tel-Aviv (2022)
“Offset” is a collection of print works, born out of the exploration of the gap between expectations and reality.
It features replicated prints of text in binary code, encrypted and duplicated to reflect notions of exposure and concealment, shame, acceptance and compassion.
In a fragmented work process between lockdowns during 2020, the initial motivation of personal exposure had been processed into offset – a liminal state of broken continuity, which Palombo inspects in an attempt to embrace it – producing layered linocuts.
An animation work, based on extensive discourse between the artist and the curator on a creative process modified by incongruence, refers to those initial intentions.
“Offset” is on display in a transitional space between two sections of the museum, as an invitation into liminality. In its truncated movement, the exhibition calls for deciphering, coding and inspecting the gap between the layers.
Chapter One
Solo exhibition by Omri Danino
Artspace, Tel-Aviv (2022)
A first solo exhibition by Omri Danino, poet and visual artist.
The linguistic grid and Hebrew alphabet constitute the principal motifs Danino employs to inspect the tension between text, as conveyor of information, and its aesthetic role. The creative process is based on a draft of Danino’s poem “Language-orphan-Kaddish” (“Kaddish-yatom-safa”) from his first book, “Kol Hayakar Shomet” (Hebrew; edited by Anat Zecharia, Hava Laor publishing, 2022). The Kaddish prayer serves as a thematic, literal and aesthetic point of reference for four hand-woven surfaces and textual images.
This burial prayer, based on Aramaic and Babylonian syntax, has been enshrined into Jewish tradition since the 12th and 13th centuries. Taking the text apart and reassembling it challenges – but also preserves parts of – the original structure. The text rings familiar but its content is new.
The woven surfaces refer to the universal stages of language acquisition and development, which children all over the world go through in their early years.
This work seeks to re-examine language-induced discipline, and highlight the tensions that exist within the text itself and between the literal and the meta-literal. The act of disassembly leaves an open void showing the traces of presence and absence; it shows how fluid linguistic structures may be, spurring potential action around and within the grid.
Between Intimacy
and Solitude
Solo exhibition by Noam Palombo
Quartet Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019)
The exhibition raises questions on revealing and concealing, guilt, acceptance and compassion, shedding a light on the gap between the ability to open up, identify and give in, and the great fear of getting lost and losing.
It uses coded texts in binary language, manually printed using linocut, offering an emotional reading of the impressions formed in the coding process, alongside the possibility of decoding it. Out of this binary language, which represents more than anything else a dichotomous state of mind, rises a human reading.
Drywall
Group exhibition, in collaboration with BUSH collective
Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019)
The ultimate divider in architecture in general and art exhibition design in particular, drywall serves as a foundation to discuss the constant separation, division, definition and designation of territories.
The exhibition raises questions on the liminality of gender and space, physical division and constraints and their political significance, and the space as an independent body.
Artists:
Yael Meiry, Karam Sage, Layla Nk, RoteMeyers Darling, Jenet Belay, Omri Goldzak, Nasreen Wahidi, Gilad Jerusalmy.
Interchange
Group exhibition, in collaboration with BUSH collective
Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture, Tel Aviv (2019)
An interchange, which uses grade separation to divide and connect roads, isn’t binary or dichotomous, but creates a fluid space, which inherently leads to another road, one of several to choose from.
Queer identity, much like an interchange, enables fluidity and dynamic explortion. The exhibition uses this metaphor to discuss the spectrum and multiplicity of human identity.
Artists:
Jafra Abuzoulouf, Rachel Anyo, Yuval Atzili, Basma Bader, Roni Ben Porat, Boaz Barkani, Or Gross, Shir Handelsman, Eden Yilma, Inbal Cohen-Hamo, Dana Friedlander-oren, Dorin Amitzur, Omry Hefetz, Uri Karin, Dana Naim Hafouta.
Light Pollution
Group exhibition, in collaboration with BUSH collective
Nightlight TLV festival, Hagra Community Centre, Tel Aviv (2018)
Light pollution describes excess, misdirected or massively useless artificial light, which affects the night’s sky. This exhibition explores these artificial lights, created by various agents of the establishment.
We’ve been taught to regard these lights as means to establish a safe space, but in fact they represent repressive, polluting power structures.
Artists:
Ayelet Raziel, RoteMeyers Darling, Alina Orlov, Faina Feigin, code_NSJ: Norelle Milder, Shani Osher Alezra, Julia Barash,Mor Katzman, Noa Shahaf, Keren Drechsler, Netta Dror, Itamar Stamler, Noga Rozman, Dan Robert Lahiani, Hanna Ashuri.
Corridor Talk
Group exhibition, in collaboration with BUSH collective
Pasáž, Tel Aviv (2018)
The exhibition examines the hallway as an architectural element that signifies passage and echoes a process of identity transformation.
The display site, at the Pasáž – a modest commercial center by day and an underground club by night – calls into question the use of intermediate spaces, and the movement and transformation they involve.
Artists:
Ayelet Raziel, Karam Sage, Layla Nk, Sivan Elirazi, Tamar Roded Shabtay, Tseela Greenberg, Eran Evan, Yael Meiry, Erez Moshe Amit, Eti Levi, Dvora Morag, Tal Oz, Alex Farfuri, Nitzan Krimsky, Faina Feigin, Shir Hakim, Shir Newman Omri Goldzak.