Black Tray

First solo exhibition by Aisha Arar featuring painting, drawing, video, performance, and visual texts.

Aisha, a young and talented Arab artist, graduate of Hamidrasha School of Art from Jaljulia, presents her first solo exhibition in Israel.

The exhibition explores the spaces between the feminine and masculine poles; between the extremes in which Aisha lives as a woman, a religious individual, and an artist within Arab society in Israel — and those that exist within every woman: the helpless, confined, submissive place that often suffers violence and, in its most extreme state, may lead to killing; alongside the free, wild, empowered feminine state that can and is allowed to ask what true love is, enjoying full freedom of choice and expression, without fear.

Both states are found in Palestinian folk tales passed orally from generation to generation by women.

Aisha brings these tales to the forefront as they appear in the exhibition through a personal artistic translation, in a series of collaborative video works; works created in cooperation with various women’s groups — at times through dance (Noa Dance Company) and at times through music (musicians from the Nova Music group).

Can opposing poles live side by side, and if so, how?

The exhibition experience moves between the world of tales and fantasy, creation and life, and the world of reality — power relations and control, violence and destruction — in a sharp, free, and wild gaze.

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