Gallery talk with the artist and curator: Friday, 17.3.17 at 11:30 am

Opening: Friday 17.2.17 at 11.30 am

Gallery talk with the artist and curator: Friday, 17.3.17 at 11:30 am

In her debut show at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Jenifer Bar Lev presents a unique collection of works,  in several different techniques (lithograph, drawing, painting and bas-relief), in various formats such as: a sewn cotton shirt, a scroll of raw linen, plywood, patchwork quilts and more.  Her works integrate text − words, sentences and expressions in English (Bar-Lev’s mother tongue), with Hebrew and Arabic (the official languages of Israel). The exhibition brings together work from different phases (from the end of the 1980’s leading up to the present), creating a comprehensive narrative, a new grammatical sentence, which both summarizes and expands her oeuvre over the years.

Through the text, color, and compositions, using both geometrical and decorative elements, Bar Lev fearlessly makes social, political and personal statements, boldly giving her own experience, from personal dreams to political thought, expression on canvas. In her works, disparate and distant worlds come together, creating and sustaining fascinating and surprising new juxtapositions. Her works raise questions that contrast cultures and traditions from the recent past with those still existing today.