GETTING OUT OF THE BUBBLE
A
Photography Exhibition
Through Other Eyes Is a
photography exhibition Presenting a unique, other, different view of a
heterogeneous group of young people of the program Through Other Eyes 2018, created
moments before these Arab and Jewish peers are to become adults and leaders in
the Israeli society.
Over the course of the
year, the group learned the secrets of photography and the power of a picture
in conveying a message. They then went out together to the environment and
places they lived, where they were guests in the homes of their peers and got
to know each other's families. In each visit to a family, the home and its
surroundings became a setting for the group members to photograph.
The exhibition GETTING
OUT OF THE BUBBLE presents, through the camera lens a
collection of insights of the group members, which have been condensed into one
central insight about our living in a bubble and the desire and courage that
are required to leave it.
The bubble confines each
and every one of us inside our comfortable surroundings, the environment in which
we were born and to which we are accustomed. Together, the group members
reached the insight that they must pop the bubble and begin to grapple with a truth,
which is different from their own, to find a way to cope with difficulty and
disagreement, to agree to observe and discuss problems and dilemmas existing in
our shared Israeli society.
The cross-cultural
encounter demands courage: to leave a place of comfort, to be willing to become
acquainted face-to-face with new and different language, culture, tradition and
customs and to agree to get new friends, who live right here on the other side
of the road, of the social divide. Leaving the Bubble visually illustrates not
only the differences but also the similarities and identical places we are in,
such as everyone's need to feel equal and to live in equality.
Through this
exceptional, shared viewpoint, the presenters enable the viewers, as well, to
comprehend what bubble they themselves live in, how threatening it may feel to
leave the bubble and at the same time how fascinating, meaningful awakening and
even truly enjoyable that can fill!
We invite you, the
viewers, to enter this exhibition with an open mind, to take part in the
experience and to leave your bubble.
Rama Yazma, Rauf Abu
Pani – Program Leaders
Quotes
by Participants in Through Others' Eyes
"For me the bubble is an
enormous thing. Leaving the bubble for me is getting out into the world and
being active." Noga
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"Getting out of the bubble for
me is getting into a bigger bubble." Tarek
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"The purpose of the bubble is to
believe in yourself. It's enough to believe in yourself for you to get out of
it and not betray your truth." Shaked
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"The bubble is my comfort zone.
Leaving the bubble is an action that's not necessarily comfortable for me, that
won't be easy for me to do – to expose myself and be willing to open up to
something new." Anog
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"Leaving the bubble is leaving
the known context, opening up to more things, getting to know something more
and not just my own life, reaching a different place, a different
routine." Gal Eisner
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"The bubble for me is the
ordinary things, leaving it is doing new things." Abdullah
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"Getting out of the bubble is to
open to different opinions that I didn't know before." Tami
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"For me, being in the bubble
means acting in times as I want to but not as I should, and feeding the
monster. Getting out of the bubble is acting not as I would like to but as I
should and not feeding the monster."
Uri/Ori
