For this September, the new Hebrew year and the Tishrei holidays, we are pleased to present a series of works by artist Hanita Ilan that raises questions about doubt and faith.
The starting point of this series come from a news segment about a giant stone that had fallen from the Western Wall during the Tisha B’Av prayers, which led to a wave of various interpretations; some of them relating to the fall as a sign of redemption, while others saw it as a disaster.
Ilan documents the wall without its missing stone as if it were a toothless smile, and the doves gathering around it as if they were witnesses to what had happen.
Ilan juxtaposes and integrats representations from different cultures in her works, through the description of sculptures and animals she explores remnants of humanity.
While working with layers and erasures that reveal and conceal the image with repeatedly, she engages and pauses the viewer within the multiplicity of layers, meanings, and contexts.
A Minute For Redemption #1 (detail), Oil on Paper Mounted on Wood, 2019
Doves (After Jacob Epstein), Mixed media on paper, mounted on wood, 2019
Untitled, Oil on paper mounted on wood, 2019
Untitled, Oil on paper mounted on wood, 2019
A Minute For Redemption #1, Oil on Paper Mounted on Wood, 2019
To Look at a Picture That No Longer Exists, Oil on Paper, mounted on wood, 2017
Untitled, Oil on paper mounted on wood, 2019
Power multiplier #2 & #3, Oil on paper, 2017 – 2019
Power multiplier #3, Oil on paper, 2019
From the show “Must Be an Angel” | May 2019, Dana Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai | Curated by Ravit Harari
