According to the tradition of the Babylonian Talmud: "There is nothing for a man to see except from the thoughts of his heart."
This exhibition is the result of an incubator of creators, artists, young men and women, residents of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The works before you were born from internal and external research under the guidance and curation of the artist Assaf Rahat and the poet Shari Shavit.
Under the roof of the new Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Museum, the creators faced polar concepts in urban life that reflect their own lives: craft versus idleness.
The exhibition works represent the dialectical movement in the relationship between inside and outside, between looking out and reflection, between public space and private autonomy. The bustling city - full of programs, hustle and bustle, tasks, pressures and expectations - is a transforming mirror to the inner world of the artists, which is often thrown back onto the external landscape.
n the works that combine plastic-visual-textual art, it is possible to recognize how the complex mental relationships meet the urban space, and the soul's deep desire, sometimes for craft and sometimes for idleness. The various works, for all their nuances and complexity, prove that rest and idleness are often intertwined.
Shari Shavit: "Working on the songs written especially for this exhibition was fascinating, exciting and thought-provoking. Female artists in their early stages expressing their voices in the urban space, this is a true creative joy. There will be many such projects, which emphasize the freedom of expression of the residents of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo ".
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Art curator: Assaf Rahat
Poetry curator: Shari Shavit