solo exhibition at Inga gallery for contemporary art, Tel Aviv

anywhere nowhere elsewhere Sep 6- Oct 26 2024 Inga gallery for Contmporary art

The works presnted in the exhibition are a range of local plants , mostly thorny, with colors that suggest dryness. some of the plants, such as the wild carrot, are shown in their dry stage. before weathering. others, such as a collection of thornes , are placed in a circle on a wall or on the floor. the circle colects them into a magical symbolic meaning. Some of the plants appear in threes, such as the three thickets of dry thorny snipe with a fine tangle of thorns, an act that alludes to the three Moiras. By copying the plants onto the glass, the artist tries to create a record of time and place. A process which the artist refers to as purification.

In addition, attempts to trace the image of a dead bird are displayed in the space, with the help of pencil drawing on paper alongside "drawing" in glass with live fire. The encounter between the drawing in pencil and the one in glass constitutes an attempt to move within the creative process between documentation and the "purification" of the image.

The name of the exhibition is taken from an English grammar book for beginners (M. Dingott, 1964, published by the Reali Hebrew School in Haifa). This is a Hebrew English translation of the concept of place in its various contexts. Isolated from the context, a pause seems like a poem dealing with the cultural, social and political contexts of the place

video of the exhibition