Labor Pains
Labor Pains
Group Exhibition
Curator: Anat Lidror
Labor Pains, the new group exhibition at the Givat Haviva
Art Gallery, presents a space with 50 works by 27 artists, who speak painfully,
deeply and vividly about birth, life and death, reparation and transformation.
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Labor Pains, the
new group exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery, presents 27 artists and
50 works, accompanied by a sense of urgency, loss, and trauma that can also
become enormous forces for healing, reparation, and birth. Which birth? The
birth of life, the birth of social relations and the birth of new fabrics in
our society.
The exhibition
deals with the connection between trauma and transformation, and with the way
there: the pain, the treatment, the Sisyphean effort, the release, the
transformation. The healing. When this happens, a renewed trust in humanity and
its motives becomes possible.
Labor Pains takes
place amidst unimaginable war and pain, most of it untreated. It moves between
three axes of fear, transformative change and birth, all revolving around the
axis of life and death. Some of the works speak in one or
two axes, some speak all three. Personal, social, political, gender,
therapeutic and
socio-psychological
views are found in them in various intersections. Our society, in this country,
at this time, is a society where everyone is hurting. Our current mental
distress also stems from the sociological-psychological dimension: from our
inability to feel cohesion, togetherness. We feel lonely and alienated.
Why is all this
happening? Where does it lead, where can it lead? The tectonic plates are
moving now. In an even broader perspective, we are at the threshold
of a new millennium. According to many theories, the ancient times were dominated
by women, while since the beginning of written history we know a society
dominated by men. The current era, also called the third millennium, provides
an opportunity as well as an imperative to connect the two. with a whole new
set of tools. We are also in this storm.
How does birth happen today and how can it happen? How can dealing with your birth trauma as an adult change your life, the lives of all of us? How do we give birth to a society that can be shared on a different basis? The exhibition is a collection of moments, sometimes fragments of an experience, stimulating and calming the mind that want to shout and to allow silence at the same time. Mainly it would like to offer a common platform for pain, for healing and for new movement.
Participating
artists: Abiru Lilo, Ori Lenkinski and Rachel
Erdos, Ayelet Ginosar Cohen, Ilana Aviv, Iris Shapira Yalon, Efrat Ben-Yehuda
Levin, Eti Gadish de Lange, Bracha L. Ettinger, Dana Nitzani, Danielle
Feldhaker, Victoria Viki Marudi, Tal Bedrack, Yuval Etzioni, Limor Tsror, Mai
Daas, Mahmood Kaiss, Michel Platnic, Ma'ayan Choresh, Noam Ben Gurion Mosseri,
Naftali Nachmani, Nardeen Srouji, Suma
Kaedan, Sana Farah- Bishara, Abed Abdi, Adina Bar On, Oz Inbar, Rachel
Aharon.
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Opening: Saturday October
5, 2024 at 12:00
Location: Givat Haviva Art
Gallery
Curator: Anat Lidror
Closing: 14.12.24
Exhibition
related events:
* About Love -
Adina Bar On, performance | Gallery talk with the exhibition artists - Saturday,
11.16.24, 11:00
* Dance
performance: Rooming-In by Ma’ayan Choresh - Saturday, 30.11.24, 12:00
* Closing event –
Social constellation and Song-circle - Saturday, 14.12.24, 11:00
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