Gestures of Locality
Exhibition
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27 Apr 2018
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26 May 2018
Published: 23.04.2018

Locality manifests in the way we move with and around objects surrounding us. The act of wearing a piece of jewelry carries with it a personal experience of culture, society, and landscape.
Artist list
Shirly Bar-Amotz, Deganit Stern Schocken, Noga Hadad, Dana Hakim, Vered Kaminsky, Esther Knobel, Gregory Larin, Ariel Lavian, Einat Leader, Tamar Paley, Deganit Stern Schocken
The exhibition Gestures of Locality offers a reading of locality through the body gestures of the maker-jewel-wearer triangle. Instead of collecting works for this exhibition, we asked the jewelers for their stories and gestures, loaded with craft and making, material and memory. The works were then passed on to wearers who encountered them for the first time. With this process, we explored the choreography of jewelry and its connection to culture and place. Are there local gestures? Or gestures of locality?
It is a challenge to define what Israeli design is, yet it is clear that human condition charges objects with meaning. Gestures of making and wearing – our body memory and physical being – bring to life inanimate objects. Given the opportunity to address Israeli design, I chose to focus on locality – not necessarily in terms of local materials or style – but in the gestures provoked from certain objects allowing a sense of place. Each of us finds locality in simple daily actions which make a place or interaction familiar. A jewel is a micro-cosmos – the gestures around it can create belonging, a momentary locality.
This exhibition is part of the bigger exhibition Folk Tune - Israeli Design or Design in Israel? of which Yuval Saar is the Head Curator.
It is a challenge to define what Israeli design is, yet it is clear that human condition charges objects with meaning. Gestures of making and wearing – our body memory and physical being – bring to life inanimate objects. Given the opportunity to address Israeli design, I chose to focus on locality – not necessarily in terms of local materials or style – but in the gestures provoked from certain objects allowing a sense of place. Each of us finds locality in simple daily actions which make a place or interaction familiar. A jewel is a micro-cosmos – the gestures around it can create belonging, a momentary locality.
This exhibition is part of the bigger exhibition Folk Tune - Israeli Design or Design in Israel? of which Yuval Saar is the Head Curator.
Ring: My Garden – Spring Time, 2017
Wood bark, bee, wasp nest, flower.
7.3 x 8.2 x 1.3 cm
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Ring: My Garden – Spring Time, 2017
Wood bark, bee, wasp nest, flower.
7.3 x 8.2 x 1.3 cm
Alternative view from a film still
Filmed by Gal Deren and edited by Oren Gerner.
Filmed by Gal Deren and edited by Oren Gerner.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Ring: My Garden – Spring Time, 2017
Wood bark, bee, wasp nest, flower.
7.3 x 8.2 x 1.3 cm
Alternative view from a film still
Filmed by Gal Deren and edited by Oren Gerner.
Filmed by Gal Deren and edited by Oren Gerner.
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
Neckpiece: Untitled, 2016
Iron mesh, thread, paint.
44.5 x 15 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Tamuz Rachman
From series: Crafted Fear series
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Brooch: Happy Days, 2012
Sterling silver, brass, teflon plating, pearls, coral gems, jade gems, zircon gem, epoxy resin, epoxy chips, acrylic paint.
7 x 8 x 4.7 cm
© By the author. Read Klimt02.net Copyright.
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