Trash Can Scale

Trash-can Scale was Yehudit Sasportas's first solo museum exhibition, curated by Yona Fischer and exhibited at the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod. It consisted of a space containing ten different objects/sculptures representing the transfer from the domestic to the anonymous/collective plane of consciousness. The drawings represented how - in the course of this journey - the objects leave their energetic imprints in space. The main issue in this work was the energetic transformation undergone by each sculpture from the concrete identifiable object, such as a trash-can, a piano, scales, carpet or bed, to the abstract, open plane, where it lost its identity.

The work also depicted the movement between an identified image and the abstract plane. For example, The Scorpion illustrated the transition from the consciousness of a child to that of an adult, revealing primary key images that left their spiritual or energetic mark on the artist's life and became a consequential code, as seen in The Crib sculpture.

Additional examples of this encoding process were presented in the Trash-can work, which included a child's bed and a Plasticine work table. This piece simultaneously incorporated the child's consciousness—or the early stage of the subject's open identity contour line—represented in the lower part of the table, alongside the upper section where the components were structured in an existing and formulated manner.

Janco Dada Museum, Ein hod, Israel