The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

Opening Events:

Address: Yehuda Burla St 1, Jerusalem

Friday 22.03.2024 at 10:00-13:00

Closing Date: Tuesday 30.04.2024 (time will be announced)

Sensory Heiress

Curator:

Stephanie Young

Artists:

Christine Atkinson, Marcy Brafman, Jason Bryant, Jennifer Deppe Parker, Diana Wege

The exhibition Sensory Heiress suggests a  unique look at the metaphors found in Mother Nature and examines how they correlate to the power and legacy of women.

A Place to Belong 

Lilach Schrag

A Place to Belong installation is part of an on-going attempt to create familiar yet alternative narratives by examining existing myths. The videos in the installation depict hybrid creatures and plants that fuse with the forest, field, or lake. These archaic beings are the personification of isolated natural environments, and are able to shift their shape or cause others to undergo metamorphosis.  The mundane daily activities they perform in their habitat are embedded in the thicket of an imaginary environment that contains materials from nature and from the human environment such as feathers, parts of cloaks, and "treasures" that were collected and preserved (including worn-out farm materials and tools). "A Place to Belong" offers a glimpse into the thick of the forest or the depths of the soul, where unconscious activity of miraculous forces takes place. This is a metaphorical attempt to adapt, belong, and sometimes struggle with the surrounding or the self, and confront the intimate with the universal. I offer this installation as a possibility of an alternate existence in a world of fantasy where miraculous creatures of nature are able to assimilate, merge, and disguise themselves in order to recharge and survive.