Galley Rashuta-Beit Rashut Ha’Rabim

Opening Event:

Address: Aharon Rabinovich St. 33

Wednesday 13.3.2024 at 20:30

Closing Date: Tuesday 30.04.2024 (time will be announced)

Green the Abyss Below Me

Curator

Jenny Aharon

Artists

Shoshana Givon, Yael Ben Shalom, Natasha Shakhnes, Ortal Reuveny, Yifat Loev Ganuz, Shachar Levi, Tohar Mor

"Sometimes the heart intends to break. There is no lesson for this holiness. How the skin wraps the flesh, how the air surrounds the earth and how, beyond the air, the bodies of the great ones drift away, without a sound, into the darkness" (Yoel Hoffman, Fragment 73, The Christ of Fish)

What do you hear when you put your ear to the heart of the abyss? In the enigma of the abyss lies the whole scope of existence. It has a strong life that forms in the presence of death.

In the world after collapse, time and space are changing. Time becomes dense, satiated, the space comes out of the wound and returns to him in a circle. But the abysmal quality adds to contain and sustain everything within it: , the wheel of day and night moves to add, to create the rich texture that lives in it. Between light to darkness, between air to earth, between photosynthesis to absorption and the wind that floats on the waters surface.

The body of work in front of you wants to give room for noise the frequent, rich life that arises within the fracture. Inside the wound, the healthy tissue is already forming, Dead and living cells are placed side by side, used in amalgamation. If it was possible to put a finger and follow me describing the movement of the seas, the finger would draw a circular spiral, descending and ascending alternately, carving in the flesh of the world, hurting and healing at the same time.

From wandering among the works of the exhibition, the understanding likens that everything is caught up in this movement. In the heart of the empty abyss a wide range of mediums, languages, contexts, raw materials and images, all of which stand up to the tension the fundamental between what is no longer and what is just beginning to form:

In the encounter with the bare skin after jewels being torn from it, or from the wounded face-like trunks of the ancient olive trees. Out of the raw wild animal that was captured for a moment in registration, or from the process of their slow, constant formation, of the stalactite caves. A wounded land and a heart beating with blood alongside a greenish revival, A reclining woman looking inward and an eternal desert landscape.

The works all conduct the intense voltage electricity in-between death and the emanation of life that decays and sprouts and decays and revives.

Gallery 'Rashuta'- contemporary art in Reshut HaRabim. The new gallery for the Reshut HaRabim opened its gates in the summer of '23 and grew out of the extensive activity of Beit Asher that is home to about 40 Jerusalem associations to Israeli culture and Judaism. The spaces of the 'Rashuta' gallery where the works are displayed are active and vibrant spaces that reveal our body of work to many visitors. The gallery hosts female artists from Jerusalem and all throughout the country and emerges as a connecting agent between its regions of cultural, artistic and human aspects of Jerusalem. As a body operating out of Rashut HaRabim, the 'Rashota' gallery promotes art and culture as an awareness agency, change and nowadays even as a personal trauma rehabilitation agency and the collective.

The exhibition hall - Beit Reshut HaRabim is a Brutalist building, which was founded in the 60s by the same creator of Architects of the Jerusalem Theater and the National Library. The house was built as a reception center for new immigrants in the Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood the 'peripheral' tributary which gathered Jews to it from different continents. The center has been a cultural gathering place from the beginning and has continued over the past six decades.

Gallery curator: Yeni Aharon

CEO of the Public Authority: Einbar Bluzer Shalem