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of Hearing present images of knots, tools and various mechanical parts, embody representations of passage, voyages, wandering, immigration and transfer of a body of knowledge and historical weight.

Hilla Ben Ari presents multi media work, objects toying between the two and three dimensional, incorporating Sisyphean manual labor. Ben Ari chooses light materials that establish airy bodies. As if the body’s materiality cannot be transcended while through her recurring action her works becomes more corporeal, heavier and cumbersome. All the figures, throughout her work, look as if arriving from nowhere and born into an artificial, architectonic space, devoid of depth, time and perspective, sentenced to utter presence. In the space of detachment, Ben  Ari combines ‘low’ materials together with the living embroidery, physical vulnerability, a precarious balance, while taking a critical gaze towards moral pillars and social views.

Ayelet Carmi leaps between mythological ceremonies and festive parades, through art history traditions. Floating representations of natural and man-made products, feathers and bones along side with surveying instruments are represent a model of the universe or to project subtle affinities between a marvelous macrocosm and a microcosm stages in the theater of her life. Carmi merges in her work personal worlds of self portrait and childhood landscapes into the ‘curriculum vita’ of human history, offering various points of view and reading possibilities of art, filtered through a critical stance in issues of gender and society.

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