Curator: Gilat Nadivi

“Beyond the sea, beyond the sea, Will you birds know thither to go” wrote H. N. Bialik in his poem that expresses the wishful thinking of a child in an adult world sailing in his imagination to faraway places, daydreaming. Meira Grossinger puts dreaming in the center of her work, revealing its fragility. She points to the visibility of her longing for another place as a skylight to peer through at the shaky and uncertain, the threatening and the bleeding in the life of the individual and in society’s day to day reality.
Her creation in the exhibit is composed of shreds of cloth and radiates pain and loneliness and struggle to survive, planted in a primitive and wild landscape. This creates a link both familiar and alien at the same time: characters, mainly of children and animals are located amid fragments of nature…