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