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A dialogue between artists from Berlin and Tel Aviv

Over the course of one year Miriam Vlaming, Nicole Schuck and Susanne Weirich from Germany and Hilla Ben Ari, Ayelet Carmi and Maya Attoun from Israel will explore the dimensions and relations between appearance and being, symbolized by the elements. Creating action spheres across time lines, moving between inner and outer personal worlds, the artists use a variety of materials, techniques and media. Thus, enabling various approaches and points of view on realities.

The creative dialog will be inspired by the conceptual quality contained in the essence of the two elements lace and poison. The fragility, beauty and illusive appearance of lace, which is hiding the distractive and deathly potential of the poison underneath. While the powerful and intoxicating ability of poison has a menacing quality, lace is associated with a subtle innocence, translucence and richness. The symbiotic interaction that intertwines life and death, destruction and