Photo 1 - Installation view at Eilat's Boardwalk - photo Avi Lubin // Photo 2 - Installation view at Habima Square - photo Avi Lubin // Photo 3 - Installation view at Habima Square - photo Tal Shahar // Photo 4 - Installation view at HaCameri Square - photo Tal Shahar // Photo 5 - Installation view in Haifa - photo Avi Lubin
Towards a New Community
(a video art event in public space)
Artists:
Adel Abdessemed, Nelly Agassi, Francis Alÿs, Pasi Autio, Irina Botea Bucan, Jordi Colomer, Brian Duggan, Nilbar Güres, Pavel Jestřáb, Sanna Laaban, Sigalit Landau, Danilo Milovanovic, Alex Mirutziu, Kira Nova, Yorgos Sapountzis, Jaan Toomik, Janaina Tschape, Guido van der Werve, Rona Yefman and Tanja Schlander, Rafal Zarski
Curator:
Avi Lubin
One of Alex Mirutziu’s best known video work - “Tears are precious” - is part of the exhibition "Towards a New Community" - a video project curated by Avi Lubin commissioned by the European Union in Israel on the occasion of Europe Day 2021.
The project will be shown throughout June in four locations in the public space in three cities: The Promenade in Eilat (June 17) , The Turkish Market in Haifa (June 19), Habima Square, Tel Aviv (June 24) and HaCameri Square, Tel Aviv (June 29).
The exhibition is dealing with the ability to talk about community and ideas of being together and being alone, against the backdrop of the quarantines and isolations we have all experienced over the past year. It raises questions about the idea of solidarity and cooperation, about the possibility of protest and resist, and asks: is it possible to be together when we are alone? Discover solidarity and empathy when everyone is with themselves? Resist together when everyone is alone?
The exhibition features twenty short video works. In each work one person is alone in the frame immersed in a simple action of communication, healing, empathy, resistance or protest. In each location the works will be projected simultaneously on four huge LED screens (four meters wide each).