Online gallery talk: Sunday, 23.04.2023, 19:30 with the head curator, Shlomit Bauman and the participating artists and curators:
Dana Yoeli, Avi Lubin, Erez Maayan, Roy Maayan, Liav Mizrahi, Dina Kahana Geller, Roni Packer, Shelly Shavit, Reut Ravuah
- The gallery talk with the artists and curators will be broadcast on Zoom – advance registration by signing up on the registration button – free admission
The exhibition “Playroom” of the artists/brothers, Roy Maayan and Erez Maayan, is an invitation to join the game and create a biographical memory, that is mixed with childhood memories of the artists and the memories of the participating public. In children’s rooms in the early 80’s before computer and tv games, one found games that developed a rich imaginary world but also competitiveness that often led to crises in relationships of the participants. Brothers and sisters and family members played together and improvised the playing space. The competition as well as the dream family and the shattered dream are part of the baseline for the exhibition “Playroom”. Read more
In a setting of the exhibition ‘Changing room’ that to some extent looks like an enlarged model, are displayed the ceramic works of Agi Yoeli and Dana Yoeli, grandmother and granddaughter, including a large lion, a terracotta cat, life-size male feet, a decorative fountain, Ionic pillars, miniature trees and a giant flower. The combination of the works of these two artists and the installation creates a synthesis of a sculptural ceramic environment, a set for a play, an historical museum, and the ruins of an archaeological site. In the past years Dana has begun making ceramic works, a medium that her grandmother specialized in, but it is the first time she examines their connection and the influence of her grandmother on her practice. In a contemporary and liberated installation she re- reads the body of work made by her grandmother, the inheritance of her family. Read more
The exhibition ‘Kinky’ examines the term through two installations of the artists Dina Kahana Geller and Roni Packer. The term usually refers to unusual or strange passionate behavior and it does not have a translation to a Hebrew word. As part of the work the artists created an environment for the objects displayed: Pecker uses a screen and Geller a protective “bed”. This layer deepens the emotional aspect connecting the artist to her work and the transition to its exposure to the public. The tension created lies between peeping in and bashfulness, and the screen does not block or hide the object but rather envelops it and gives it strength. Read more
