Sunrise Sunset
The exhibition Sunrise - Sunset explores the cyclical nature of light and darkness, representing the profound duality in nature. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography by leading artists from Israel and the world, the works reflect this cycle in diverse ways. Some vividly capture the abundance and generous energy of the sun, while others contemplate the hidden spaces, shadows, and silence that emerge as darkness falls.
The works invite viewers to look inward at a similar cycle of revelation and concealment, knowledge and ignorance – inseparable parts of the same circular energy. Like the sun and moon in Kabbalistic mythology, struggling for control of day and night, the exhibition explores these two archetypes, representing opposing yet interdependent poles that complement each other in an eternal cycle.
Exhibition text by Irit Fine Sommer.
The exhibition presented a work from Chapter No. 18 of the Liquid Desert project, Adam-Haya No. 02 (M).
This chapter of the Adam-Haya drawings engages with the essence of our collective subconscious. The drawings emerged following my monthly encounters with wild animals at the physical site that serves as a landmark for the Liquid Desert project.
Through these works, I communicate with an animal I fear and tend to avoid, which regularly appears at the site itself. Typically, the animals that arrive at the site are documented by a field camera that continuously transmits data. The live feed from the field cameras to the studio during the night, along with the information they contain, enables me to draw with charcoal on soft canvases the field of resonance - or alternatively, the kind of information that cannot be articulated through language, yet leaves its traces and marks upon the surface of the canvas.