Green Through and Through
This site-specific exhibition presented in the art pavilion overlooking Gan Yaakov (Yaakov Garden). As plants are brought inside to be grown at home, the exhibition draws contemporary works of art from Israel and abroad into its space, works that evoke features of gardens and parks.
Anyone who cultivates plants encounters growth and decline on a daily basis. This eternal life cycle of appearance and disappearance is the rhythm that the exhibition seeks to elicit. As in artistic practice, attention and intimate proximity strengthen plants, which, in turn, repay us with their own restorative powers, inspiring beauty and infusing hope. That is why we grow plants in our living spaces, in the spaces of our lives. Like art, gardens generate another space of beauty, respite, and projection of ideas and symbols. In these days of turmoil and apprehension, the exhibition seeks to offer comfort and healing by enveloping visitors in a naturally-lit art space that echoes the beauty of garden elements and voices a complex emotional tone.
Exhibiting artists: Sharon Breuer, Ruti De Vries, Yael Efrati, Urs Fischer, Dan Graham, Roni Hajaj & Alisa Lyudinshina, Irit Hemmo, Roderick Hietbrink, Jossef Krispel, Amit Levinger, Hilla Toony Navok, Omer Ohana, Tchelet Ram, Barak Ravitz, Moshe Roas, Dan Stockholm, Shira Zelwer
Installation view
Photo: Elad Sarig
The exhibition was supported by the
Eyal and Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation
The plants courtesy of Plant45, Tel Aviv