Odd or Even / Noa Arad Yairi & Yuval Yairi

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זוג או פרד
אוצר: ניב גפני

החיים והאמנות כסאגה מתמשכת של פרידות ושיתופי פעולה

זוגות אמנים תמיד חיים דואליות מרגשת אך גם מסוכנת. כל אחד מהם נושא בתוכו שני קצוות, שתי ישויות, היומיומית והיוצרת, גוף שנושא בתוכו קולות שונים. במפגש ביניהם לא רק שני אנשים נפגשים, אלא ריבוי של זהויות ותודעות. המפגש אינו תמיד ברור או צפוי. לא תמיד ניתן לדעת מי פוגש את מי.
נעה ארד יאירי ויובל יאירי, זוג כבר כמה עשורים. כל אחד\ת הוא בן\בת זוג, הורה, והוא גם אמן\ית, תודעה פתוחה, מתרחבת, חורגת מגבולות הזמן והמקום. אך כל אחד נפרד ביצירתו
נעה עוסקת בפיסול, ציור ומיצב, עם דגש על עבודות תלויות מקום הנובעות ממחקר של נרטיבים היסטוריים, פוליטיים ותרבותיים הקשורים לאתר שבו הן מוצבות, לצד עיסוק מתמשך במרחב הנשי מתוך נקודת מבט פמיניסטית. יובל יוצר בתחומי הצילום, הווידאו והרישום, ועבודותיו עוסקות במקום ובמרחב מתוך מבט ביוגרפי, היסטורי ופוליטי. לכל אחד אזור משלו בסטודיו, קו גבול בין היצירות השונות וזמן עבודה שונה, נעה עובדת במהלך היום ויובל בערבים. שני מסלולים מקבילים, קרובים, נעים זה לצד זה מבלי להתמזג
מתוך המרחב המוכר והבטוח של החיים המשותפים הם החליטו להכניס את הקשר האישי אל תוך הקשר האמנותי. לראשונה הם בחרו לעבוד יחדיו לקראת תערוכה זו, ולא רק להציג יחד עבודות, אלא ממש ליצור יחד, להתערבב אחד לשניה בתוך העבודות, לערבב את המדיומים והטכניקות, ללמוד אחד מהשניה, לוותר ולהקשיב
מתוך כך נוצר גוף עבודות חדש שבו יחסים אישיים וחברתיים, משפחה, היסטוריה, אמנות, פוליטיקה ויומיום נשזרים אחד בשני. לצד העבודות המשותפות מופיעות גם עבודות אינדיבידואליות חלקן חדשות וחלקן עבודות קודמות
יחד הן יוצרות מרחב מרובד מחוות אמנותיות ומשמעויות המכיל אהבה, יאוש, בלבול וגם קצת תקווה
נעה ארד יאירי ויובל יאירי הם גם חלק מגרעין האמנים שבנה את המפעל
העשייה שלהם נטועה בהיסטוריה של המקום הזה, שנבנה מתוך שותפות, מתוך אמונה בכוח של פעולה משותפת, ומתוך רצון להרחיב מרחב שבו יצירה וחיים נפגשים

ثنائي أم فرد

أمينة المعرض: نيف جافني

الحياة والفن كرواية متواصلة من الفراقات والشراكات

أزواج الفنانين يعيشون دائمًا حالة ازدواجية مثيرة، لكنها أيضًا محفوفة بالمخاطر. كل واحد منهم يحمل في داخله طرفين، كيانين: اليومي والخلاق، جسد يحتوي أصواتًا متعددة. في لقائهم لا يلتقي شخصان فقط، بل تتقاطع هويات وزوايا من الوعي المتعدد. هذا اللقاء ليس دائمًا واضحًا أو متوقعًا، وليس من السهل دائمًا معرفة من يلتقي بمن.

نوعا أراد يائيري ويوفال يائيري زوجان منذ عدة عقود. كل واحد/ة منهما شريك/ة حياة، ووالد/ة، وهو/هي أيضًا فنان/ة، وعي مفتوح ومتسع، يتجاوز حدود الزمان والمكان. ومع ذلك، يبقى كل واحد منهما مستقلًا في إبداعه.

نوعا تعمل في النحت، الرسم، وأعمال التركيب، مع تركيز على أعمال مرتبطة بالمكان تنبع من بحث في السرديات التاريخية، السياسية والثقافية المرتبطة بالموقع الذي تعرض فيه الأعمال، إلى جانب انشغال مستمر بالفضاء النسوي من منظور نسوي.

يوفال يعمل في مجالات التصوير الفوتوغرافي، الفيديو والرسم، وتعالج أعماله المكان والفضاء من منظور سيري ذاتي، تاريخي وسياسي.

لكل واحد منهما منطقته الخاصة في الاستوديو، خط فاصل بين الأعمال المختلفة، ووقت عمل مختلف: نوعا تعمل خلال النهار، ويوفال في المساء. مساران متوازيان، قريبان، يسيران جنبًا إلى جنب دون أن يندمجا.

ومن داخل الفضاء المألوف والآمن للحياة المشتركة، قررا إدخال العلاقة الشخصية إلى داخل العلاقة الفنية. وللمرة الأولى اختارا العمل معًا تحضيرًا لهذا المعرض، لا لمجرد العرض المشترك، بل للخلق المشترك فعلًا: التداخل أحدهما في أعمال الآخر، مزج الوسائط والتقنيات، التعلم إحداهما من الآخر، التنازل والإصغاء.

ومن هنا نشأ جسد أعمال جديد، تتشابك فيه العلاقات الشخصية والاجتماعية، العائلة، التاريخ، الفن، السياسة واليومي. إلى جانب الأعمال المشتركة، تظهر أيضًا أعمال فردية، بعضها جديد وبعضها سابق.

معًا يخلقان فضاءً متعدد الطبقات من الإيماءات الفنية والدلالات، يحتوي حبًا، يأسًا، ارتباكًا، وقليلًا من الأمل أيضًا.

نوعا أراد يائيري ويوفال يائيري هما أيضًا جزء من نواة الفنانين الذين أسسوا هذا المشروع.

ممارستهما متجذرة في تاريخ هذا المكان، الذي بني على الشراكة، على الإيمان بقوة الفعل المشترك، وعلى الرغبة في توسيع فضاء يلتقي فيه الإبداع بالحياة.

Odd or Even

Curator: Niv Gafni
Life and art as an on-going saga of separations and collaborations
Artists couples live a thrilling yet dangerous duality. Each of them carries within them two poles, two personas: the everyday self, and the artist. A body that contains several voices. Their relationship is not merely a union between two people, but a multiplicity of identities and consciousnesses. The meeting is not always clear or predictable; It is not always possible to know who is meeting whom.
Noa Arad-Yairi and Yuval Yairi have been a couple for several decades. Each of them is a partner, a parent, and is also an artist, an open, expanding consciousness that exceeds the boundaries of time and place. Yet each remains distinct in their artistic practice.
Noa works in sculpture, painting and installation, with a particular interest in site-specific works that emerge from research into the historical, political, and cultural narratives of the locations in which she presents. Alongside her ongoing fascination with the female space and a feminist perspective.
Yuval works in the fields of photography, video and drawing. His works deal with place and space from a biographic as well as historic and political perspective.
Each one of the two have their own space in the studio: a clear border between their practices. As well as separate working hours: Noa works during the day, while Yuval works in the evenings. Two parallel tracks, moving closely to each other, yet never converge.
From the secure and familiar space of  their shared life, the couple decided to bring their personal relationship into the artistic one. For the first time, they chose to work towards this exhibition together. Not merely by showing their works side by side, but to truly create together, to intertwine with one another within the works, to blend media and techniques, to learn, to yield, and to listen to one another.
Through this process, formed a new body of work in which personal and social relationships, family, history, art, politics, and everyday life are interwoven.
Alongside the collaborative works, individual pieces are also presented – some new and some older. Together, they create a layered space of artistic gestures and meanings that holds love, despair, confusion, and also a small measure of hope.
Noa Arad-Yairi and Yuval Yairi are also a part of the core group of artists who established HaMiffal. Their practice is rooted in the history of this location, that originated from partnership, from faith in the force of collaborative action, and out of the will to hold space for the intertwining of creation and life

CloudMapping @ Fabienne Levy Gallery, opening February 16, 2023

CloudMapping / Justin Kamp

Time and place are not abstractions, in Yuval Yairi’s work, but rather intrinsically linked formal modes. Throughout the Israeli artist’s practice, he has persistently investigated how these two subjects operate as functions of one another: how a place lives in one’s mind not as a singular “decisive moment,” as Henri Cartier-Bresson might say, but as a conglomeration of successive views, gathered and arrayed over the course of a life. In “CloudMapping,” opening at Fabienne Levy Gallery on February 16th, Yairi continues these persistent investigations, broadening them into new material realms.

“CloudMapping” is the final part in a trilogy of shows that Yairi has developed over the past decade, all of which have captured, through means both plastic and photographic, the granular details of his Israeli homeland, its substrate of shattered bullets and cypress seeds. In “CloudMapping,” though, Yairi moves away from the camera’s direct representation. Here, instead, a realm of ink: architectonic drawings of seed pods and men, of boats suspended in schematic grids. Clouds, adrift, over a rubbed-pigment desert. 

The subjects of “CloudMapping” are not the specific places Yairi conjured in previous works. They are instead concepts, rendered from the vantage of non-concrete time.  In these drawings, Yairi gives form to the transience of representation, and indeed of the material world: Trees growing, harvested for lumber; towers, crumbling or not yet built; clouds, hanging then gone. Here, again, a remembrance of Cartier-Bresson. “For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”

Cyphers & Cypresses

Yuval Yairi’s solo exhibition opening at Fabienne Levy, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 4, 2019

https://www.instagram.com/fabiennelevygallery/

Objective Space / 2019 / 197 x 158 cm

The exhibition is composed of the first two chapters of a trilogy in progress, featuring photography, drawings and an intervention on the walls. The show is accompanied by a short film that portrays the artist’s work process.

In the first chapter, Yuval adopted the semi-fictional figure of a “surveyor” as a partner and a vision aid for examining his surroundings and for introspection and personal soul searching, as he tries to come to terms with certain episodes of his past.

With the help of the surveyor, Yairi revisited experiences from his military service, confronting unresolved ethical and moral questions. He formulated a coded language and with symbolic actions and objects, he expressed thoughts and feelings about these experiences, which he cannot share publicly.

In the current chapter, Yairi shifts away from the contemplation of his personal experience towards a broader and multifaceted examination, which reflects many perspectives about the state and future of the Israeli space, in a personal, political, and geographical context. He chooses the cypress tree as a measuring tool and a symbol of memory, as a sensor that collects data about its environment.

Each of Yuval’s works starts from direct photography, capturing a moment of truth or reality.. Out of thousands of such photographs, he recomposes on an extensive grid all the fragments of time in the virtual space of a computer. He strings together non-sequential times, events, and places into a timeless photograph.

The exhibition accompanied with text by Ilanit Konopny
https://yuvalyairi.com/cyphers-cypresses/cyphers-cypresses-essay-by-ilanit-konopny/

Group exhibition: Quest_Ceramics & photography

Between-Gaza-&-Rafah.jpgYuval Yairi, Between Gaza & Rafah, 2015, 57 x 40 cm
Quest_Ceramics & photography, Group exhibition, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center,
Opening November 19th, 2015
Curators: Talia Tokatly, Roni Ben-Ari
17 Ha’amal Street, Tel Aviv 66532, Israel

תערוכה קבוצתית  /  חיפוש קרוב – חומר וצילום
אוצרות: טליה טוקטלי, רוני בן-ארי
פתיחה: 19נובמבר 2015 בשעה 20:00
בית בנימיני – המרכז לקרמיקה עכשווית
http://www.benyaminiceramics.org/

LAND @ stigmart videofocus magazine

videofocus

http://issuu.com/stigmart10press/docs/stigmart_videofocus_-_special_issue/16

Next screening will be at AIVA video art festival, May 28-31

http://aivafestival.com/program/program-open-call/

New work: André Chouraqui’s Study, Jerusalem

André Chouraqui's Study (detail), Yuval Yairi, 2014

André Chouraqui’s Study (detail), Yuval Yairi, 2014

André Chouraqui's Study Room, Yuval Yairi, 2014

André Chouraqui’s Study, Yuval Yairi, 2014 / 105 x 200 cm, 68.5 x 116 cm

About André Chouraqui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chouraqui

LAND at FOKUS festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Feb. 6

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Trailer for LAND – one of 10 nominated videos in the open call of FOKUS 2014 video art festival, Copenhagen.

“Collecting Dust- Contemporary Israeli Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem יומן אבק

"Collecting Dust- Contemporary Israeli Art" at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

“Collecting Dust- Contemporary Israeli Art” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, December 4, 2013

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit.asp?id=878

Curator: Tami Manor-Friedman

From Collecting Dust exhibition catalogue, text by Tamar Manor-Friedman, curator,

The Israel Museum, 2013

“Nimrod Roundabout” was taken just hours prior to the museum’s reopening, and it focuses on the final cleaning-up operations in the main lobby, where Itzhak Danziger’s sculpture “Nimrod” stands as a centerpiece. When the images are screened in rapid succession, the anonymous worker maneuvering the floor scrubber is blurred, his repetitive circular movement around the gleaming icon that has become a symbol of Israeli art assumes the aspect of a ritual dance around a sacred figure – reminicent, perhaps, of the hands of a clock moving between the ephemeral and the eternal, between the human and the sublime. Yairi’s photographic odyssey concludes at this very moment, when the ancient patriarch “Nimrod”, carved from desert sandstone, stands on its pedestral in the spotless temple.

יומן אבק – אמנות ישראלית עכשווית

אוצרת: תמי מנור-פרידמן

מוזיאון ישראל, ירושלים