The Ashdod Art Museum opens a large-scale exhibition of contemporary Israeli photography in June
The exhibition Flood - Contemporary Israeli Photography opens at the Ashdod Museum of Art, presenting the work of 26 photographers of different generations who are currently active in Israel and around the world.
© Art by Uri Gershuni
The exhibition was created in the wake of the book The Spirit and the Pomegranate: Contemporary Israeli Photography, published in Italy in the summer of 2017 (published by Postcart) and in collaboration with its authors, film critic and curator Mauricio de Bonis and photographer and journalist Orit Yudovitch, who both live and work in Italy. The kernel for the exhibition is the authors' unique positions as external observers of the Israeli art world and their attempts to understand the development of contemporary Israeli photography as well as its place in the international arena.
© Art by Michal Chelbin
The exhibition offers a wide view of the contemporary photographic world in Israel, which, for the first time, has assembled a wide range of photographers and iconic works from the past 40 years, without any hierarchies or prior frameworks.
It extends from a wide range of modes of representation – from direct, seemingly traditional photography, characterized by examining the locale and preoccupation with identity, ethos, and collective narratives, to experimental and conceptual photography, dealing with intra-medial processes; from traditional genres such as portraiture, landscapes, interiors, and still life to the abstract and absence of the image.
© Art by Adi Nes
Flood - Contemporary Israeli Photography opens Thursday, June 7 at 20:30. Closes October 13. Ashdod Museum of Art, 8 Derech Eretz St, Ashdod