ANNA YAM ⎸
432 09 02
A car is parked in an empty street, right in front of the camera; a woman sits in the car that’s in front of the camera; a man and a woman stand beside the car that’s in front of the camera; a family and a car in a parking lot, in a group photo, all in front of the camera. This unique collection of pictures, gathered from albums of various families, depicts a small ceremony: here is something worth pausing for. It seems that documenting the family car was a common practice among 1990’s immigrants who had left the Soviet Union behind and started a new life in Israel.
YIFAT BEZALEL ⎸ DANIEL TCHETCHIK.
SHIPLESS OCEANS
Mirav Katri is proud to present “Shipless Ocean”, a joint exhibition of works by Yifat Bezalel and Daniel Tchetchik. The exhibition showcases the artists’ recent works in an intimate space where seemingly unrelated works paint a common poetic song. It is rare to show drawing and photography together. When Yifat Bezalel and Daniel Tchetchik decided to work on this exhibition, it felt completely natural, both aesthetically and narratively, almost essential, being both renowned artists in their own fields and hyper sensitive human beings. The idea came after a long period of creative introspection. Both artists delved into their past works and revisited their esthetic references in a new light or rather a new darkness.
GUY ZAGURSKY ⎸
UP THE WALL
Up The Wall, an exhibition by Guy Zagursky, was born out of the pragmatic need to hang sculptures on the wall to clear the studio floor. The need to climb up the walls was a result of a physical necessity which soon became a transposition, an almost complete change in thinking of space, or if you like an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
SHIRA ZELWER ⎸
RESERVED
Shira Zelwer’s installation has two parts. One consists of small-scale sculpture, like a model for an installation: 400 miniature Keter Plastic chairs cast in wax and painted white, whose height was adapted to the scale of Zelwer’s figure sculptures, arranged in rows. The first four rows are marked “reserved,” a category which gave the work its title.
SHIRA ZELWER ⎸
GREENHOUSE
Zelwer sculpted the Greenhouse for her solo exhibition in 2017 at the Lexus Gallery in Tel Aviv. The installation consists of a real size Greenhouse, made of aluminium frames moulded with paraffin wax, the greenhouse is 6 meters deep 3.5 meters wide and stretches to over two meters in hight. In the space leading to the Greenhouse, lays idle the German Shepherd watch dog guarding the Greenhouse.
When entering into the greenhouse, Zelwer invites the public into her work trusting her seemingly delicate plants with the viewer, and thus giving us the experience of entering into her sculpture. The immense size of the sculpture, the bursting lush of green inside met with sterile feeling created by the wax along with lack of a familiar greenhouse odour, bewilders the viewer’s senses allowing Zelwer to successfully create an unfamiliar sensation for the visitors of her greenhouse.
Inside the greenhouse, Zelwer carefully positioned almost one hundred plants, of 18 different types, each one of which hand crafted and carefully painted by the artist with her unique stroke, thereby bringing them to life.