Out of Line / Group exhibition

Pariticipants: Simcha Even Chen, Shamai Gibsh, Yael Novak, Eliya Levi Yunger, Ronen Yamin, Einat Cohen, Nitsa Bar, Shay Gerassy and Adi Tal, Rani Gilat, Shira Silverston

Curator: Einav Baranes Eliasov

Opening: Thursday 16/7/20 from 19:30

Closing: Saturday 29/08/20 at 14:00

Gallery Talk: Friday, 28/08/20, first session at 10:00, second session 11:00, third session 12:00, fourth session 13:00. For registration

The concept “Out of Line” calls upon each of us as individuals or as a society to rethink, to challenge, to rebel, to question and to change leadership, teaching, professional development, and material conception. We are living in a world of accelerated technological advancement and what was impossible becomes applicable just about every day.  It is not possible to predict the future since the steps that change our progress are not linear and so it is harder to be prepared and therefore requires flexible thought processes to define the new boundaries. 

In addition, the world is more “compact” and there is human interaction that crosses countries and continents making the world a “global village” exposed to different cultures daily. Emigration, traveling, displacement, conflict are now common concepts, but each one is a catalyst to think “out of bounds” while values such as camaraderie, family, solidarity, history, friendship, and alliance receive a new meaning.

The exhibition challenges the makers to dare, to stretch and to break the bounds of the clay, the personal language, technology, concept and to undermine, challenge and examine a new reality. The works show new forms created in the fire or the unconventional combination of ceramic materials as well as personal and collective ideas looking inwards or observing actual reality.  Concepts such as fragmented and whole, traditional and contemporary, nature as a metaphor for human characteristics and consumerism are infused with unconventional meaning in the field of ceramics and so they are “Out of Line”.