"Art
in Migration" - Exhibit
How
do immigrant artists experience migration? How do their works reflect their
memories, fears, and hopes, their encounters with the new country and their
longings for the old one? How are all of these translated into color, form, and
texture?
The
exhibition introduces visitors to the different ways in which artists, who replaced
one homeland with another, engage – through their art – in a discourse between
their new home in Israel and their former homeland.
On the one extreme we find
those who defy Israeliness and protest: "the more you want me to be like
others, the more will I stress my uniqueness" (Eliahou Eric Bokobza). On the
opposite extreme we find those who attempt "to combine the two worlds and create
something whole" (Giordana, Alex Tubis, Sofie Berzon MacKie).
In between, are
those who preserve the past through their
art (Daniella Meller, Margalit Shelly, Tasfaye Tegegne). Some of them are aware
that this is the only path available to them (Khader Oshah), the only way to be
"saved" (Nora Stanciu).
Others are almost unaware of their choice
(Michael Elkayam). And there are those who through their art, respond not only
to their own migration, but also to the Israeli reality that is forever
changing: "what I'm finding slowly, slowly, slowly is that as I'm becoming
more Israeli, Israel is changing and softening a little bit…" (Andi
Arnovitz).
Curators:
Prof. Haim Maor and Prof. Julia Mirsky
Interviewers:
Vicky Ashkenazy, Elena Fominykh, Lera Itskovich, Keren Kouznitz, Matan
Rabinowitz, Ofir Tzukerman
Coordinator: Dvorah Kremer
