The Global pandemic, marks down a time in history of unrest, a lost sense of physical security, as spaces shut down and we were taxed with the mission to readjust to the unknown, the unexpected, testing the flexibility of artists to accept, adjust, refuse to despair, to accept what we could not accomplish and discover how to recuperate and regroup.
In the art scene initiatives were taken to mobilize the digital realm, as a way to retain access and keep the pulse of culture beating.
I am grateful to the generosity of the Jerusalem municipality for it's 360 initiative making virtual tours of all it's municipal run galleries- bringing my first Duo exhibit, exhibited with Elinora Shwartz and curated by Avital Naor Wexler, funded by Mifal Hapayis Exhibition Grant, into the virtual sphere for visitors who didn't make it before the galleries shut down. With this initiative we were equipped to hold virtual talks:
Beita Gallery and it's managers exhibited flexibility and resourcefulness in a last minute decision to hold a virtual Facebook live talk about the exhibit in the most professional way possible, using a great technician, superb lighting, communications staff, and despite our disappointment after the cancellation of a long waited for conversation with well known Art Therapist and Jungian annalist Janice Shapiro. Despite the social distancing, I felt connected to the audience who eagerly tapped in to listen, react, and ask.
In the art scene initiatives were taken to mobilize the digital realm, as a way to retain access and keep the pulse of culture beating.
I am grateful to the generosity of the Jerusalem municipality for it's 360 initiative making virtual tours of all it's municipal run galleries- bringing my first Duo exhibit, exhibited with Elinora Shwartz and curated by Avital Naor Wexler, funded by Mifal Hapayis Exhibition Grant, into the virtual sphere for visitors who didn't make it before the galleries shut down. With this initiative we were equipped to hold virtual talks:
Beita Gallery and it's managers exhibited flexibility and resourcefulness in a last minute decision to hold a virtual Facebook live talk about the exhibit in the most professional way possible, using a great technician, superb lighting, communications staff, and despite our disappointment after the cancellation of a long waited for conversation with well known Art Therapist and Jungian annalist Janice Shapiro. Despite the social distancing, I felt connected to the audience who eagerly tapped in to listen, react, and ask.
We also held a virtual tour and talk in English with the Jewish Art Salon as part of their Sunday Virtual Salon sessions- and held important conversations with the artist community around the identity intertwined in our works. A recording of the session and discussion will be released in September.
My colleague, figurative painter Chana Cohen Zada, invited me to join a talk about Jewish art, Women's art, and the intersection of the two, with Kobi Kubin in Salon Sessions of Cafe Shapiro. (Hebrew).
The Studio of Her Own retrospective exhibit in the David Yellin Social Gallery created a video with the curators talking about the nuances of the works, and decided to extend the display for another semester. (Hebrew)
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