Tales of the Sands: Contemporary Israeli Art
07.06.99 – 24.07.99
Tales of the Sands was a group exhibition which presented recent developments in Israeli art. The exhibition focused upon shared concerns found in many contemporary Israeli artists’ work – namely a persistent interest in land and the semantics of territory, or what in Jewish/Israeli culture is called ‘Place’ (Makom in Hebrew).
Artists: Itzhak Danziger, Moshe Ninio, Larry Abramson, Gilad Efrat, Deganit Berest, Joshua Borkovsky, and Sigalit Landau.
Curated by The Fruitmarket Gallery in association with Sarit Shapira (Curator of Israeli art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem).
Descriptions of a Struggle: Israeli/Palestinian Film Series
Programmed alongside Tales of the Sand, this film series aimed ‘to provide a way into thinking about the complexities involved in being an artist in Palestine/Israel’ presenting ‘a range of films and videos made by artists working in the territory, some defining themselves as Israeli, some as Palestinian, some just as film makers trying to deal with the problem of being only ambiguously aligned with either identity’ (programme introduction, Paul Willemen).
The film series was organised by Marc Lambert and Evelyne Kluger-Kadish.
Artists: Omar Al-Qattan, Nurith Aviv, Simone Bitton, Assy Dayan, Ayelet Dekel, Orna Ben Dor, Duki Dror, Azza El-Hassan, Amos Gitai, Amit Goren, Nizzar Hassan, Michel Khleifi, Rashid Mashrawi, Mai Masri, Avi Mograbi, Tsipi Reibenbach, Ido Sela, Elia Suleiman, Sobhi Zobaidi