Simcha Even Chen, Felicity Bernstein Yaacobi, Eti Goren, Rani Gilat, Zahara Harel, Michal and Gilles Jaure, Avner Singer, Shulamit Teiblum Millar, Noa Chernichovsky, Raz Israel, Boris Katz, Meir Moheban, Hilda Merom, Rachel Menashe Dor, Maya Peled and Tom Man (tomaya), Jorge Karelic, Reut Ravuah, Shani Reches, Shelly Shavit, Leah Sheves, Mira Sadot, Raya Stern, Sivan Scheffner
The exhibition Air, Silence is a sequel to the exhibition Pause. Both exhibitions are a tribute to healing, rest, and beauty. This group exhibition also focuses on presenting quality ceramics that give breathing space and the choice to experience humaneness, comfort, compassion, and optimism.
The works in the exhibition Air, Silence, are set very close to the floor, as in the previous exhibition, a place where it is usually unacceptable to present three-dimensional objects and does not flatter the works as we would like to see them. This creates a different relationship between the observer and the object and opens a point of discussion regarding perspective, the unpredictable relationship between the viewer and the works and a new meaning for the works on display. Despite the desire for escapism, the low display creates discomfort. Is this feeling irritating and annoying? Or does it reflect the inability to exhibit a simply beautiful exhibition.
Ceramic has a beautiful and comforting side which is based on the DNA of material making.
The exhibition Air, Silence is a type of ‘time capsule’, an area demilitarized of horrors, and a break from the endless wave of awful images that we are still exposed to from news and art.
The invitation extended to the artists to participate in the exhibition specifically requested works that are not a reaction to the situation. In this exhibition, as in the previous one, there is tension between the escapist character of the works and the unconventional presentation of the works, however, this time it was not an option but a pre-stated fact.
Is this an interesting experiment? A fundamental mistake forced on the works? A new viewpoint?
