Talia Tokatly, Blood Butterfly Formation, porcelain and iron wires, 2023, Photography: Gil Godinger
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Blood Butterfly Formation

Mamuta Art & Research Center

Opening: 25.04Closing: 11.07
Free

Artists: Talia Tokatly
Curator: Dveer Shaked

Talia Tokatly is a visual artist who works in sculpture, ceramics, and installation. Her works deal with personal and family memories, traumas, and personal or collective anecdotes – their representation and imprinting in matter. In the exhibition “Blood Butterfly Formation,” Tokatly departs from a domestic space and unfolds a web of connections, memories, and objects across the gallery spaces. The furniture from the Viennese home where her father grew up before World War II, which arrived in Israel during her childhood, as a memory of a world that once was but is now lost, transform under her hands into syllables and words that connect into abstract sentences in the exhibition space. In the basement space of Mamuta, a world is built that oscillates between the domestic and non-domestic, between Vienna and Jerusalem, and between the concrete and the abstract. The exhibited works were created using diverse techniques of working with ceramic materials alongside ready-made objects that underwent intervention, embroidery threads, iron, and organic materials that were collected, preserved, incorporated, and woven together into a story. Audio recordings of her father and granddaughter deepen the personal dimension, and their presence adds an intimate emotional resonance. The gathering, preservation, processing, weaving, and sewing are at the core of the exhibition not only as a material choice but as a conceptual practice and a way of working in the studio and in the world.

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