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Tattoo Representations in Contemporary Art | Ben-Gurion University Gallery | Curators: Yasmin Bergner and Haim Maor

A new social trend is currently emerging that warmly embraces the tattoo genre and recognizes its importance. The Tattoos exhibition presents works of art by artists from Israel and abroad who relate to the act of tattooing in various ways of expression and reveal the variety of internal motivations for tattooing in the context of defining personal, national, gender, social, cognitive and spiritual identity.

Tattoos | The Human Body as a Work of Art | Museum | Curator: Yasmin Bergner

Since the dawn of history, the tattooed body has been a means of glorification and personal and collective definition of man. The art of tattooing has its origins in traditions of shamanic rites of passage and initiation in indigenous cultures; every tattoo work around the world contains within it pieces of culture and history and also embodies personal, social, ecological and spiritual values.

History of Tattoo Culture in Israel | By Yasmin Bergner

In recent years, we have witnessed an exciting process of tattoo revival in our region, albeit belatedly. Why is the tattoo renaissance coming to Israel about two decades late compared to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world?

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Ancestors | Group Exhibition | Binyamin Gallery Tel Aviv | Curator: Yasmin Bergner

Ancestors

Curator: Yasmine Bergner

Cover image: Max Harris

The body is the medium through which we communicate with “the other” and the environment. We create personal and social identities through which we establish “human social networks” via the body. Changing and manipulating the body through tattooing is interpreted here as an active pursuit through which people engage in self-identity and in positioning themselves within their social relationships.

The exhibition focuses on the ancestral aspect of the tattoo, as it arises both concretely and metaphorically. The participating artists address, through the act of tattooing, the legacy of ancestors living within us, influencing and shaping our world.

An inscription on the skin allows us to commemorate memory, to reveal and illuminate a hidden layer, to affiliate ourselves with positions and concepts, and to keep them close to our hearts.

A tattoo is an act of change, fixation, and transformation. An expression of the eternal in a transient world.

A tattoo is a “secret revealed,” embodied on the surface from the skin into the light.

The art of tattooing is inherently linked to rites of passage and initiation in shamanic traditions in non-Western tribal cultures.

In Western culture, until the end of the 19th century, the art of tattooing was considered an “inferior” and decadent genre, and tattoos were even used as a tool for diagnosing criminal tendencies.

The art of tattooing receives empowering treatment in contemporary culture. Its status as an independent artistic genre is increasingly becoming established after hundreds of years in which it was labeled as a fringe phenomenon.

Today, a new social trend is flourishing, warmly embracing the genre and recognizing its importance and multicultural uniqueness.

Research and Curating: Yasmine Bergner

Participants: Esther Cohen Skin, Dafna Shapira Hasson, Shunit Gal, Rany Pardes, Max Harris, Malkiela Feig, Lilach Madar, Amalia Zand, Galia Pasternak, Arik Weiss, Eyal Fried, Ron Amir, Lars Krutak, Ajarn Matthieu, Nimrod Reuveni, Jude Moskovich, Yasmine Bergner, Haim Maor, Shimon Pinto, Om Kultov, Julia Freidin

Binyamin Gallery: 11/7-3/8, 28 Chelnow St., Tel Aviv

Opening: 11/7 Thursday at 20:00

Live performance: “Bone Marrow” (Premiere)

By Dafna Shapira Hasson and Shunit Gal, 20:30