Part III of the Tel Aviv Craft and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum
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Dana Bloom, "Cover-Discover", 2019, gilded foil (chocolate wrappings), Clay.
"Ceramic Replicas of mens shoes--visual representation of the patriarchal worldview that may conceal violence and aggression towards women and whose footsteps continue to resound from one generation to the next."
"A necklace, combining an age-old material with industrial materials brings together rigid and fragile elements with soft and flexible ones. A new visual language arises out of the encounter between materials and techniques."
Rivka Levi, "Permanent Variable" 2018, photographs, thread, pigment, frame loom weaving, video.
"A textile out of photographs, texts, and family memories serves as a screen for the projections of a video work, which examines the weaving process. The work presents a personal memory alongside shifts in cultural conceptions and craft traditions."
Roy Maayan "Principle Original Horizontality" Clay, soil, rocks from the Golan Heights, minerals, ceramic cones, layered and fired. "Objects composed of layers of materials originating in nature or the artist's studio. The layers fired at different temperatures and melted to different degrees, relate to the principle or original Horizontality--one of the fundamental principles of geology stating that layers of sediment are deposited horizontally"
Vered Babai "Erratic", Pencil Shavings, Inspired by the topography of the Ramon Crater, the artist uses pencil shavings to echo the structure of the rock strata.
Maayan Shahar, "Stone Rug" Stone, Gravel, string, Colored stones and gravel collected from yards, squares, and parking lots, bringing the private and public together
Carmel Ilan "The Secret Life of Trees #3", wood shells, folded paper.
"Leaf-like objects holding onto the genetic relationships of trees that "grew" on the concrete floor of the studio and their produce was born from the amputated trees"
Jerry Shai-Sarig "Senses", hand embroidered cotton and polyester thread on fabric.
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