“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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In the annual exhibition in memory of artist Morel Derfler (1956–2001), the participating artists correspond with works from his photographic series “Urban Vegetation,” created almost four decades ago – responding to his attempt to create “forced nature” from rootless branches he photographed on the roof of his house. They observe the outside from their domestic interiors, examining the power relations and reciprocities between man and the surrounding nature in various ways. At times, nature infiltrates and invades the work; at others, it is the work of art that spawns it.

Artists: Boaz Aharonovitch | Davi Barell | Neta Cones | Yuval Naor | Yali Reichert | Gustavo Sagorsky | Yaron Rosner | Maya Zehavi

Davi Barell, from the video Urban Renewal, 2020