MUSRARA the Naggar school of arts presents: PHOTOPOETICS 8
MUSRARA, the Naggar school of arts presents:
PHOTOPOETICS 8
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ENCOUNTERS
The medium of photography, and video art in its wake, is immediately associated with the autobiographical, once for its documentary-indexical aspect – the possibility of capturing and perceiving reality and again of its iconic aspect – the way in which each photographed image becomes a memory of what has been.
The duality of the real versus the imaginary and fictional inherent to photography is entailed with the autobiographical from the movement between the past and the present, between private and collective events and rituals, between personal histories and memories and iconic events, and between linguistic and textual images and visual images.
In the three exhibitions presented in the 8thseason of Photopoetics, we will set out to explore the different ways in which identities and autobiographical voices are shaped in the meeting of photography, video, and writing. They will explore introspection as a means of unfolding hybridized, fluid, and multicultural worlds and freedom of thought formed by the revealing gaze turned inwards. They will center on questions of aesthetics and intrinsic grammar, of self-definition and awareness, of fragmentation and of existential options that also hold movement and individualism.
The exhibitions will unfold documentary spaces and offer a critical perspective on identity as a body, as a language, as a tapestry of affinities and interactions, exploring themes such as humanism, female identity, Mediterranean culture, memory and myth, and familial relationships. Alongside these,they will also introduce issues of photography and video through the lens of the discourse surrounding modernism and postmodernism at this point in time and the possibility of formulating their connection to autobiographical writing and the construction of new narratives.
As in its previous iterations, Photopoetics 8 takes place in Musrara’s three galleries and focuses on the meeting of photography, video, and poetry.This time, it brings together works by women artists, photographers, poets, writers, and curators. The project creates a space for discussion and contemplation of questions concerning the relationship and tension between the written word and the visual image. And like each year, the exhibitions will be accompanied by a series of events that combine music and poetry reading.
Head curator: Avi Sabag
The Derfler Gallery
From the Treetops to the Pearl Pool
Photography curator: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
Poetry editor: Tal Nitzan
Works by 15 women artists, photographers, and poets of different generations and sectors of Israeli society are gathered in an exhibition centered on the connection between body and text. Set against the cultural contexts of identity and gender, sexuality, motherhood and aging, rituals, migration and trauma,the female body is deciphered in the space of the gallery as a biographical realm where life, memories, and hopes are inscribed. The body carries the inner message, holds it, and transmits it to the world – whole or in fragments. Traditionally in the history of culture, the female body is the object of male gaze and interpretation. In this exhibition it is reflexive: women are both the creators and at the center of the artworks.
Featuring: ShulamitApfel, Ayala Ben-Lulu, Rachel Chalfi, Sheikha Haliwa,Tsvia Litevski, Mirale Moshe Alvo, Tal Nitzan, Nataly Turjeman
The New Gallery
Placeless: Following Jacqueline Kahanoff
Curator: Irena Gordon
The exhibition focuses on the search for identity in the Mediterranean expanse, while looking at notions of Eastern and Western, antagonism versus fluidity and hybridity, belonging and not belonging, following the writing and thought of Jacqueline Kahanoff (1914-1979). A writer and essayist, Kahanoff sought to define multiculturalism as a world view and a way of living, long before the postmodern discourse.Her unique perspective was rooted in her autobiography and a reality of alienation, exile, and lack of place. The artists who were invited to participate in the exhibition explore, each in his or her own way, the possibility of presenting a personal voice and the ability to capture memory and cultural identity. The exhibition is comprised of existing and new works alongside Kahanoff's texts.
Featuring: Hadeel Abu Johar,Ilit Azoulay,Sagie Azoulay, Mati Elmaliach, Rafael Balulu, Adi Brande, Dor Gues, Chen Cohen, Michal Heiman,Vered Nissim, Dafna Sahlom.
Social Gallery
A Woman in Workspace
Curator: Gil Cohen
At the heart of the exhibition lies the collection of poems "A Woman in Work Space” by poet Tehila Hakimi. Hakimi's poems construct a reality of a woman whose identity is sometimes clear to her and sometimes ambiguous. She is restricted by the definitions of language, the office, the expanses of the house, of the street, and of the body, and tries to decipher herself in their depths.The six artists featured in the exhibition all address similar ideas, each in her own way, with photography, sculpture, video, and collage – gathered together alongside the poems. Ticking clocks, starched shirts, empty coffee cups and hands, flickerin the new, other, space that unfolds between the poems and the artworks, echoing a woman’s world in today's reality.
Featuring: TehilaHakimi, Elena Ceretti Stein, Netta Dror, EfratHakimi, Meital Katz Minerbo, Yael Meiry, Hila Vugman
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