The Black Venus from Mevasseret Zion
Artist:
Tamar Hirschfeld
Curator:
li-he habas
Tamar Hirschfeld’s exhibition holds two polar opposites within one space; one presents white, respectable and melodramatic women, while the other displays black and unruly women.
The white woman franticly seeks to represent restrained and self-possessed refinement; the black woman is wild and frivolous. The white woman is cold and distant, practically ghost-like, while the black woman is a sprite, gay and brave. The encounter between the women will take place in different cemeteries.
For the exhibit, Hirschfeld created a video which features Ethiopian girls from the Absorption Center located not far from The Art House. In the exhibit Hirschfeld herself appears in black and white while the Ethiopian girls are directed as a Greek chorus.
