Closing Reception: August 4, 4-7pm
Artists talk 5pm
Alexandra Ben-Abba, Noa Charuvi, Naomi Safran-Hon
Moderated by Rebecca Pristoop
Fragile Territories brings together artwork by three Israeli artists of
the same generation who explore their complex relationships to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While each artist moved to the United
States to pursue her own artistic exploration, it is the home she left
behind that beckons her full attention. Individually, the artists
wrestle with poetic notions of faith and loss while enacting artistic
processes that question the division between personal identity and
national responsibility. Together, they represent a growing community of
Israeli expats struggling to unpack the meaning and significance of
this inheritance. Through diverse materials and processes each artist
grapples with the loss of security and rightness within Israel’s
national history as it intersects with a thinly veiled private life.
