Encounter at the exhibition Ruth Schloss: Protests on the Horizon / The Political Body’s Protest (in Hebrew)

Encounter with the curator Anat Danon Sivan and Dr. Nurit Cohen Evron, daughter of the artist Ruth Schloss

A special meeting at the exhibition Ruth Schloss: Protests on the Horizon, which inaugurates a gallery of changing exhibitions at the heart of the permanent one. The meeting will look at Schloss’s late work, which links together the protest of the political body against injustices with the struggle of the surviving body.

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Protests on the Horizon — Ruth Schloss's (1922–2013) first solo exhibition at the Museum.

The exhibition Protests on the Horizon, whose title is extracted from Nathan Alterman's poem A Protest's Fortune, focuses on paintings created by Schloss in the last two decades of her life. It marks a peak in her ongoing engagement with the human existence of the helpless. These paintings are juxtaposed with early drawings, which preceded the later manifestations of human suffering in both content and form. The later paintings reveal a new painterly sensitivity in the introduction of monumental figures: old men and women, newborn babies, and handcuffed Palestinians. Depicted from up close, the figures are "chained to life," fighting for their freedom from their first to their last day. Through the winding movement of the handcuffed bodies, Schloss ties the political body's protest against wrongs and injustice with the eternal struggle of the surviving body.

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Spaces are limited.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum (not including the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective)

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Image: Ruth Schloss, Old Woman, 1994, acrylic on paper, 95×124 cm, Gift of the Ruth Schloss Estate and her family on the occasion of the artist's centennial anniversary, 2022