To Sing from the broken branch exhibition, ZUZU gallery for cultural movment, Emek Chefer, 2023-2034, curator Shira Friedman
The eternal time, drawn as a circle which holds force and therapeutic power, is also present in Dafna Kaffeman's works. In these works, created especially for the exhibition, glass twigs stand in a circle. Some of them push themselves up with the effort, others collapsed to the ground. The twigs, in red and earth colors, look like an abandoned bonfire: a gathering place that once symbolized warmth, vitality and wholeness, and now remains alienated and empty of content. The missing fire also symbolizes humanity and its fading light. But the source of the work is precisely the fire that is not present in it: it is she who allowed Kaffeman to melt the glass into a whole image. On the wall, next to the circle, hangs a statue in the form of azadrach branches. The branches face down, contrary to their natural growth. Some of the poisonous fruits are intact and vital, but others drop off wrinkled and withered.
Text by: Shira Friedman, exhibition curator, 2023
photo @Doron Letzter