Through
Others’ Eyes - Women 2017 Presents:
'Surrounding
– Her'
Through Others’
Eyes is a photography project that aims to enable a group of Arab and
Jewish women to get to know each other’s culture through creativity, learning,
and shared
experiences.
Throughout
the program, the group met photographers from Israel and from abroad, learned
about the camera, and experienced creating images that tell a story. The
meetings included visits to the homes of the participants, a personal meeting
with an artist, and a visit to a photography exhibition.
During
the course there were sessions dealing with women’s issues, culture, family,
and our surroundings. These sessions revealed similar and different worlds and
became the raw materials of the exhibition: opposites intertwined on the same
plot of land.
The
subject of our surroundings emerged as the main issue: space, landscape, that
part of the world, which we all love, prevailed through the lens of the camera.
In
the history of art, women were traditionally situated in domestic spheres-- in
the role of hostess, or performing tasks related to the kitchen. But as women
find their place within the arts those locations tend to change as well.
This
exhibition presents women as they go out into the world around them and examine
their presence in it. For Arab and Jewish women being in the outside world
cannot be limited to issues of gender. It lends way to more general questions
about history and ties to the land.
The
exhibition illuminates the learning experience.
The
meetings and the many questions that came up remained open. There is no ending
or summary, but it is a women’s proposal to reexamine our mutual world
Trough
Other Women 2017
The
Instructors Tamar Shalit Avni, Rauf Abu Fani, Abir Genayem
