Axis — Solo exhibition
Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai
Curator : Ravit Harari
2020
Curator : Ravit Harari
2020
In Axis, five life-size sculptures were created from the fingerprints of someone dear to me. Enlarged until they became bodily architectures, these concave forms envelop the visitor's body, transforming an intimate trace of touch into a space of relation.
Arranged in a circle, the sculptures draw on the structure of Stonehenge, a ritual architecture associated with celestial cycles and the solstices. The exhibition also included perforated wall drawings reproducing the constellations of Scorpius and Orion, together with a choreographic video unfolding in the space between the sculptures.
For this choreography, I invited the dancer Rina Schenfeld, who was 82 years old at the time of the exhibition, to activate this space. Through a body shaped by memory, she enters into a reciprocal relationship with the sculptures: her movement reveals what the material preserves, while the sculptures transform her presence into a new bodily experience. This activation creates a dialogue between memory, matter and transmission.
During the opening, Schenfeld reactivated the choreography performed in the video, allowing movement to circulate from one body to another, from the projected image to the living body.
