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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.

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

The exhibition focuses on the ancestral aspect of the tattoo. Tribal cultures are structured in concentric circles, much like the rings of a tree. The individual is situated at the center, enveloped by an outer circle surrounding them: the collective tribal system. This social circle is wrapped in yet another outer circle: the socio-religious system, which expresses the tribe’s cosmogonic and mythological worldview. The tribal totem is an archetypal visual representation of the culture—the focus and heart of the tribe—serving as a collective ancestral tool for personal and social empowerment. It attracts cellular renewal, infinite creation, and a connection between the past and the future. The totem is a dual representation: the founding male/female pair, whose pairing creates culture. The mythical graphic themes that adorn the tribal tattoo are patterns drawn from the totemic language (which is the universal grammar—the symbols and archetypes of the culture). In this context, a tattoo is a kind of “personal totem.” A talisman of memory and an object of empowerment. In the tribal world, a tattoo is part of a shamanic rite of passage and initiation, throughout the stages of life.

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.

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Curator: Dafna Shapira-Hasson

Participating Artists:

Yasmine Bergner, Batya Hashkin, Shunit Gal, Sivan Zarifi, Anati Toker, Ayelet Tarlovsky, Mirei Shanan, Bell Shapir, Dafna Shapira-Hasson.

Sara Arman Gallery, Tel Aviv 2019

“We curate memories in our bodies, we curate passion and heartbreak. We curate joy, moments of celestial peace. If we want to have access to them, if we want to move into them and through them, we must enter into our bodies… Our body tells stories.”

The Right to Write / Julia Cameron

“The ‘Histories: Installation/Performance’ exhibition refers to the concept of ‘history’—literally translated from English as ‘His-story’—but in its feminist reversal to ‘Herstory,’ meaning a personal female perspective on history as a personal story.

In the early 1970s in the United States, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro began teaching art courses for women. They initiated workshops where they asked women to write about their personal lives as motivation for a personal process and for creating art. Part of the project was ‘WomanHouse’ (1972, California), a house they renovated together, with each artist addressing a specific space in the house.

The ‘Histories: Installation/Performance’ exhibition attempts to point to a personal story woven within a work of art when the female body is a part of it, as a continuation of contents related to feminist art, and as a private story woven between the body and the objects it produces (she produces).

In the exhibition, 9 women present installations, objects, and performances simultaneously. At scheduled times, 9 performances will take place in relation to and with the objects in the exhibition, performed by each of the artists. The fact that the gallery where the exhibition is presented exists within an active home places the performances as part of the daily activity of a house, as a meeting place between actions, objects, and a personal story.”

From the exhibition text:

Text and Curatorship: Dafna Shapira-Hasson