Stack / Yaara Rabinovitch

Curator: Naama Haneman

Opening: Thursday, 31/8/2023 at 19:30

Gallery Talk and Closing event: Saturday, 2/12/2023 at 11:30 – For more details

Closing: Friday, 2/12/2023 at 14:00

At the heart of her first solo exhibition, Yaara Rabinovich, architect, designer, and ceramic artist, is one of the three basic shapes, a plate.  Rabinovich’s view of the plate is an object devoid of its purpose over all the years.  For her it is not another designed vessel to serve the ancient practice of eating.  She isolates it and makes this basic object unique, starting in Denmark as a plate that was cut on one side which then opened the world of ceramics for her. She disconnects the plate from its original purpose and uses it to examine her personal journey.

With her background in architecture and a style of work that has a grammar like planning a building, and with her talent, she succeeds in understanding the material, aware of its tendencies which she harnesses for her needs.  Her personal plate is deeply rooted containing Rabinovich herself and wherever she goes she can carry this plate, this base for herself. The plates are stacked one on the other and each time add another level to the tower, passing her height and continuing to grow.

Her white plates, dispersed in the gallery, devoid of color, meet the viewer from different angles.  She sorts the layers of her personal history, dismantles the plates into parts, and lays them out in a grid on the wall.  Should it be necessary it is possible to remove a circle from the glass window and make it once again into a plate.  The primal circular movement inherent in this basic shape continues to move and encounters the first movement in the world, the movement of the sun.  This circular movement in nature gives her basic security.  Over the hours of the day the plates will meet the natural light in the gallery and create new shadows.  Even in times of uncertainty, she can look out with the knowledge that after sunset there will be sunrise.