Creation Looking For a Home
Artist:
Hila Laiser Beja
Curator:
Dr. Lihi Habas
The house is a recurring motif in Hila Laiser Beja’s artworks. While it is evocative of children’s drawing, the imagery is deceiving and unsettling: a single and abandoned home, a chaotic array of a cluster of houses, crumbling foundations and rusted facades attest to neglect, destruction and oblivion, and raise the questions: What have we lost? Will we be able to return home? Is rehabilitation a possibility? The house is an allegory of the dream and its rupture, a kind of warning sign of the loss of cultural and creative values.
Gallery talk: 31.10.14 at 14:00
* Please note: the exhibition is held at an alternative venue.
Hila Laiser Beja, Unknown Land, 2013, charcoal on paper, 50×70 cm
