7th exhibition in the 19th Nidbach series | Whispers
Artist:
Renana Laub
Curator:
Maya Israel
Gallery talk: Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:00
In Renana Laub’s artworks, a metamorphosis takes place between innocence
and wildness, reflected in surprising encounters between pigments, papers,
red resin, reproductions, twigs and animal bones. The possible space between
innocence and the wild is Laub’s working space. She reads Grimms’ fairy tales,
quotations from the Bible and other Jewish texts, then embarks on a journey
between the sacred and the mundane, between secular stories and religious
narratives, to create a new narrative about the act of creation. Personal and
collective memory identify the contexts of those stories to become revealed
as the complex relations between figures, flora and fauna. Laub’s creative act
is based on search, discovery and conservation taking place in the environment
of a home research laboratory. The attempt to conserve and repair emphasizes
the gap between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
Additional opening and gallery talk : Thue, 7.1.16 at 17pm
