“Turning Inward”, Three New Exhibitions at Musrara Galleries

Head Curator: Avi Sabag

Director of Musrara Galleries: Ayelet Hashahar
Cohen

The current exhibition program at Musrara galleries delves into our modes of observation – at ourselves and our immediate world, and at others and their lives – in the time of Covid-19, through photography, video, and sound. It examines how works of art articulate feelings of distress, anxiety, and crisis, while creating visual poetics.

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The exhibition “Natural Glitch” addresses the desire to document and preserve the outside world, which we call “nature,” and the failure to realize that passion. The featured artists propose different ways to frame outdoor nature and introduce it indoors, but their attempt to fixate the external world encounters countless obstacles, and the resulting images are all distorted, whether blinded by the light of the photographic flash, gnawed upon by fungi, turned upside down, or broken. The exhibition examines the attempt to represent nature through the very failure of the act of representation. At no point are viewers lured by the illusion that programs such as Planet Earth attempt to create, since the works present things as they are.

Artists: Dana Levy | Maya Perry | Avishai Platek | Hadas Satt | Miri Segal

Dana Levy, Forget Me Not, 2020, inkjet print, 40×60 cm