Because of Me the Sea is Wild | Ramat Hasharon Center for contemporary art | 2023| Curator: Ravit Harari
Photography: Lenna Gummon
A wooden apparatus is presented holding seven rolled-up paintings painted from both sides. The eighth painting, is displayed in its entirety on the gallery wall, flowing onward onto the adjacent wall. Due to its dimensions, the painting invites the viewer to walk along its length. Reaching the end of the painting, one discoveres that it, too, continues along the other side of the paper.
Some of the images appearing in the work are based on the story of the prophet Jonah, who was cast into the depths because he fled from the role God had assigned him.
The image of Jonah in the belly of the whale is iconic and recurs in cultural history as an allegory for a person fleeing his fate and undergoing transformation through containment.
The wooden installation thus becomes a structure that attempts to hold water, control and direct its movement. The flow of erased and painted images, hidden and revealed, unfolds over the installation and twists within it as an allegory for the helplessness of the individual in the face of the depths of his/her drowning fate.
A wooden apparatus is presented holding seven rolled-up paintings painted from both sides. The eighth painting, is displayed in its entirety on the gallery wall, flowing onward onto the adjacent wall. Due to its dimensions, the painting invites the viewer to walk along its length. Reaching the end of the painting, one discoveres that it, too, continues along the other side of the paper.
Some of the images appearing in the work are based on the story of the prophet Jonah, who was cast into the depths because he fled from the role God had assigned him.
Some of the images appearing in the work are based on the story of the prophet Jonah, who was cast into the depths because he fled from the role God had assigned him.
The image of Jonah in the belly of the whale is iconic and recurs in cultural history as an allegory for a person fleeing his fate and undergoing transformation through containment.
The wooden installation thus becomes a structure that attempts to hold water, control and direct its movement. The flow of erased and painted images, hidden and revealed, unfolds over the installation and twists within it as an allegory for the helplessness of the individual in the face of the depths of his/her drowning fate.
The wooden installation thus becomes a structure that attempts to hold water, control and direct its movement. The flow of erased and painted images, hidden and revealed, unfolds over the installation and twists within it as an allegory for the helplessness of the individual in the face of the depths of his/her drowning fate.
Video: Dan Robert Liani
