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Distractions | 24.2.25 - 6.2.25


Distractions

6.2.25-24.2.25

A new exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery

 Exhibition Curator: Atar Geva | Gallery Curator: Anat Lidror

 

    Kabri Gallery Curators: Saher Miari and Ziv Sher | Kabri Gallery Curator: Tamar Hurvitz

 

The third exhibition in the series ‘The Way of the Land’, curated by Atar Geva, deals with distractions: the distractions from the madness and pain since 10/7, those that have allowed artists to create, in order to get away from the paralyzing uncertainty.

The exhibition hosts the Kabri Gallery, a Jewish-Arab Cooperative Gallery operating since 1977 in the Western Galilee, which was evacuated from the conflict line following the war. A year and a half after the calamity, the gallery artists continue to work together and separately and recount their distractions in the conflicted area. Hosting the Kabri Gallery artists at the Givat Haviva Gallery, in an exhibition dealing with the kibbutz project, offers an attentive and curious stage for their distractions from the place from which they were displaced.

The exhibition will feature the wandering ladders of Saher Miari, left behind by the Palestinian workers who disappeared from the construction sites. Saher himself worked in construction and brought the political raw materials into his art. Josyane Vanounou’s symbolic ravens, whose cries freeze on the line between life and death. Shlomi Hagai’s crane and warplane, flying in aesthetic peace behind the hidden defense systems. Dubi Harel’s dialogue with Rembrandt and the atomic mushroom, flirting with the end of the

 

 

 

 

 

world. The blindfolded dancers of Doaa Bsis, who use touch to compensate for the sense of sight that had been taken from them. Noam Ventura’s wounded north, Yael Canaani’s fragile plywood. Ashraf Fuahri’s burning bush, holding a stubborn dialogue with his donkey. Micki Tsadik’s iron casts, holding fluttering papers and not letting go. The series of kibbutz drawings by Tamar Hurvitz Livne, who insists on utopia in days of gloom and doom. Ziv Sher’s action photographs and Gabriella Willenz’s sculptural installation, offering an alternative point of view on violence that is taken for granted.

The exhibition also features Tamar Nissim’s video work, Whose mourning is it anyway? that shows members of the kibbutzim who returned to their homes, following many months of living as refugees after their kibbutz was occupied or evacuated in past wars, and had to deal with the private bereavement of the orphans and widows, as well as the collective mourning of the entire kibbutz community.

The exhibition closes on 24.2.25 with a gallery talk, and will be followed by the fourth exhibition in the series - "Kibbutz is sometimes an address, sometimes home".

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Opening: Friday, 6.2.25, 12:30 PM

Place: Givat Haviva Art Gallery

Exhibition Curators: Saher Miari and Ziv Sher

Chief Exhibition Curator: Atar Geva

Kabri Gallery Curator: Tamar Hurvitz | Givat Haviva Gallery Curator: Anat Lidror

Opening Event and Gallery talk: 15.2.25, 11:00 AM

Closing: 24.2.25


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