'Hutzot' gallery for Public Art

 

 

 

 

 

Curator: Gaby Hamburg-Fhima

A Field Unravelled. 2024.
 Installation: agricultural net, discarded knits unraveling, shredding, ironing and needle felting.

26 September 2024 - current.

Curator: Gaby Hamburg Phima.

In this exhibition, the artist Dana Cohen (b. 1989) deals with crisis- stricken territories, seeking to discover the uniting, mending, and activating force of the artistic act. The fields rooted at the foundation of the exhibition re-challenge questions pertaining to territorial crises in the form of physical, mental, and conceptual fields.

The work is composed of agricultural nets where Cohen assimilates remnants of knits by implementing actions of felting and unraveling. The networks come together as a rhizomatic system, creating a territorial form that dominates the gallery space, and which seems to want to gush out of it. The art work fluctuates between the figurative and the abstract: on the one hand, it stresses the profound connection to its source in the reality it describes )agricultural nets(; and on the other, it acts as an abstract metaphor.

"A Field Unraveled" was originally created for Cohen's MFA graduate exhibition at Bezalel and was exhibited in a building that had originally accommodated the fashion company 'Diva' until the mid-1990s, which was later closed due to the crisis in the textile industry. The work recently ascended as a vine to Jerusalem and is currently displayed in the public art gallery 'Hutzot'.

 

                        Field of the Wild (2024)
                        Digital Print
                       
15x11.25 cm

 


                        The Crane (2018)
                        Digital Print
                       15x11.25 cm