“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 “The Body Alone” observes the body as it emerged during the “ongoing COVID-19 crisis.” As an emergency call issued by the government and health authorities, in the name of public order and protecting the public’s health, the human body was asked to self-isolate, shut itself in, shelter at home, resulting in uncanny anxieties.

The exhibition spans sculptural and cinematic works alongside archival materials from the history of photography that correspond with texts by philosophers and psychoanalysts written during the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, in an attempt to lend meaning to the body even in this time.

From the army of light, Arnesto Levi, Injekt print (photogram fragment, 1990), 2020