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Centrepiece / Doria Sahra & Eran Inbar

Are those birds, maybe bees?

something is buzzing behind the trees!

it`s bubbling right underneath the surface,

it`s growing just beneath my knee,

if you look closer you too shall see

– (from “Painsluts, Vibrating Gardens & other Magical Toys” by Doria Sharra)

The history and social associations of embroidery are primarily tied to women, was never considered fine art, and was always thought of as a craft. For me, this made it the perfect medium to examine questions of masculinity and power structures.

  -Eran Inbar

What kind of man?

Men and masculinity are such familiar markers that they have become “unmarked” according to culture researcher Peggy Phelan. All cultural systems, primarily language, see them as so absolutely natural that they need no marking, and certainly do not require being addressed as a discrete category, one that varies individually and across geographical and historical axes. If a female director wins an Oscar, for example, the fact that she is woman will be noted. But if a male director wins? That – goes unmarked. This is the case in every discipline: science, culture, politics, and economics.

But what kind of man is so natural as to go unmarked? Or more precisely, what kind of men? And how is masculinity expressed? How does it look (or how does he look)? In what fields are these concepts applicable? What is their history? These questions motivate the work by Inbar and Sharra in “Center Piece”, not exactly a centerfold or the central act, and quite deliberately an alliterative reference to peace and piss.

The theme that seamlessly ties the techniques, subjects, and different approaches in this exhibition presented by Sharra and Inbar is their particular attention to detail and subtle seductiveness. It interweaves elements of identity and affinity and links passion and adoration. It ties together celebrities and objects of desire such as Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the most masculine men who appear on magazine covers and have decorated the walls of countless libido permeated teenage rooms. It  is even evident in fine embroidery work that pierces through seemingly ultimate masculinity, literally cutting through its tough façade. This is also the case in works by Sharra, where men cultivate gardens of shaking vibrators masquerading as flowers, using playfulness and humor to dispel solemnity and taboo.

The needles Inbar employs, and the feathers Sharra uses in her paintings with teasing provocation, are representative of the oppositional world written about by Gilles Deleuze (as he examined the writings of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade), because this world is “capable of containing its violence and excesses”. This violence and this excess are rooted in one of the most normative, humane, and ostensibly (or not) standard concepts: a contract. An agreement between people that encapsulates a wide range of desires to find a home, a partner, a stage, a helping hand, or just the clothes pegs or cucumbers.

Agreements enable us to fulfil our vision, to plaster it on the walls and galleries of our consciousness. But unlike standard legal agreements, the one presented by Inbar and Sharra is agreed on in total silence, a covenant born of irony, a twilight zone between seriousness and levity, between what is said outright and what may only be whispered about in hushed voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwuySablHdE

Moreover, this is a contract between sanctity and mundanity. This is made clear in Inbar’s central positioning of an altar, and the ceremonial tools and costumes in the drawings and paintings by Sharra.

The mask of masculinity is removed in this shared ritual, and when it is worn again it resists reunifying back into a single image. The performative sacrament allows Inbar and Sharra to deconstruct, stretch out, and direct many and multiplying forms of masculinity. For example, just like the scandalous photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe in his 1980 work  “Man in Polyester Suit”, the embroidery, objects, collages, paintings, and drawings by Inbar and Sharra break out from a limited codex of hetero-normative masculinity, one that is aggressively Israeli in nature.

New options begin to germinate and spring up in the face of this militant, power-driven masculinity. Contrary to the official historical image of the halutz  (pioneer) and then the sabra (native Israeli), of Srulik  (a cartoon image of the typicaly Israeli boy) and then achi (Hebrew: “my brother”), this narrative focuses on those that didn’t spend their days out in the fields, didn’t wear tembel hats or helmets, didn’t wave about firearms or hoist the flag.

If you look past the flowers and behind the trees, as proposed by Doria Sharra, if you momentarily ignore the history of branding embroidery as a woman’s craft, as suggested by Eran Inbar, you will see that of the many images in this shared exhibition there are only men, their masculinity, and their many masculinities.

Curator: Gilad Melzer

Opening at noon Friday 02/06

12:00   O’clock

Yodaft st. 7, Herzliya

Closing 25/7/2023

Participating Artists:

Events with the Exhibition:

Archived

from2024-12-13->>till2024-12-13

from2024-11-23->>till2024-12-28

from2024-10-30->>till2024-12-27

Meir Tati

Cafe Yodfat

A residency program for Israeli artists

from2024-10-22->>till2024-10-22

SONOLODGE on Plywood / Eyal Talmudi, Maayan Linik

October 22, 19:00

Sukkot on Plywood

from2024-10-21->>till2024-10-21

from2024-10-19->>till2024-10-19

Saturday, October 19, 12:00

 Sukkot on Plywood

from2024-10-18->>till2024-10-23

Ilan Peled

In collaboration with the Herzliya Museum

from2024-09-13->>till2024-11-16

Plywood Roots / Eili Levy

Solo exhibition

Opens on September 13, 12:00pm

from2024-09-04->>till2024-11-30

Orly Sever

Soon at the Artists Residence

Cafe Yodfat

A residency program for Israeli artists

from2024-08-01->>till2024-11-30

Karen Dolev

from2024-07-25->>till2024-07-25

The Right to persist loss / A conversation with Moran Lee Yakir Liron Ben Shlush and Ran kasmy Ilan

Thursday July 25, 8pm

from2024-07-15->>till2024-11-30

Netaly Aylon & Yifeat Ziv

Cafe Yodfat

A residency program for Israeli artists

from2024-06-13->>till2024-08-11

Come back, I must leave / Moran Lee Yakir

Solo Exhibition

13/6/24-8/8/24

Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan

from2024-06-01->>till2024-08-15

Eliyahu Fatal

Residency Program

from2024-05-23->>till2024-05-23

Assaf Talmudi trio

Gallery Gig

May 23, 8pm

Free entrance

from2024-04-24->>till2024-04-24

Bergman & Davis

A special screening at he Cinematheque

from2024-03-01->>till2024-05-01

from2024-02-22->>till2024-05-10

Blink of an Eye / Yasmin Davis

Solo exhibition

22/2/24-30/4/24

Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan

from2023-10-04->>till2023-10-04

Evening: A place for things to happen

Sound Event

from2023-09-14->>till2023-09-14

Open residency: Wolfgang Obermair

14/9

7pm

from2023-09-13->>till2023-11-10

As the Crow Flies / Shmil Frankel

Solo Exhibition

Opening: September 14, 8:00 PM

from2023-09-01->>till2023-10-01

Daniel Rothbart

Residency Program

from2023-08-24->>till2023-08-24

from2023-08-17->>till2023-08-17

from2023-08-15->>till2023-08-15

from2023-08-08->>till2023-09-08

from2023-07-25->>till2023-07-25

PEZZ / concert

25/7

from2023-06-22->>till2023-06-22

Cocoons & Drafts

Open studios event at The Artists Residence

22/6/23

from2023-05-18->>till2023-05-18

Oy Division 18/05

Backyard performance at the residence

from2023-05-11->>till2023-05-11

Bowed Harp / Shaul Kohn

May 11th 2023

Gallery Gig

from2023-04-09->>till2023-04-09

9/4 Cooper Moore & Friends - Performance

Backyard performance

Yodfat St. 7, Herzliya

from2023-03-02->>till2023-05-31

Nicole Weniger

from2023-03-01->>till2023-07-31

The Authority for Identity Security (AIS)

Group Show

Opening: Saturday 18/2/23, 20:00

from2023-02-08->>till2023-05-15

Maya Dikstein & Mar~Yãm Volfzon

Residency Program

from2022-12-30->>till2022-12-09

Aki Sasamoto

Residency

from2022-12-21->>till2023-03-21

Ovidiu Anton

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-12-19->>till2023-01-05

Yael Bratana

Residency

from2022-12-15->>till2023-01-04

Jasmin Vardi

Residency Program

from2022-11-12->>till2023-01-10

White Peacock / Leigh Orpaz

Solo show

Opening: Saturday 19/11/2022, 20:00

from2022-10-13->>till2023-01-05

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-08-30->>till2022-08-30

MALOX / End of summer liftoff

Garden gig to celeate the publishing of the artist book "Portals and Commodities" by Elad Larom

from2022-08-18->>till2022-08-18

from2022-08-11->>till2022-08-11

Medamem

A special performance inside “North Tribune, South Tribune”.

11/8, 3pm-8pm

from2022-08-02->>till2022-08-02

Alon Eder / Garden Gig

2/8/2022

20:30

from2022-08-01->>till2022-09-15

Shaul Kohn

from2022-07-06->>till2022-09-02

Alexandra Berlinger

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-07-05->>till2022-08-30

Martin Wagner

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-07-02->>till2022-09-07

North Tribune, South Tribune / Roy Cohen

Solo Exhibition

Opening: July 16, 5:30pm

from2022-06-23->>till2022-06-23

7,5,4,1

Garden Gig

23/6/22, 8pm

In honor of the publication of Elad Larom's artist book

"Portals and Commodities"

from2022-06-11->>till2022-06-11

A very Lali and Tali talk

from2022-06-10->>till2022-06-10

from2022-06-01->>till2022-09-15

Ralo Mayer

Residency for Austrian Artists

from2022-05-18->>till2022-05-31

Anja Manfredi

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-05-17->>till2022-06-30

Sebastian Reis

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-05-17->>till2022-07-04

Bernhard Rappold

Residency for Austrian artists

from2022-05-11->>till2022-07-09

Mom / Lali Fruheling

Opening: May 14, 8pm

Curator: Tali Ben-Nun

from2022-04-23->>till2022-04-23

All about fairy tails

Discussion

Dr. Hanna Livnat, Sharon Kantor and Alina Orlov

from2022-04-09->>till2022-04-09

Season of the Withcg

Garden Live Gigs

Cafe Yodfat - Residency for Israeli artists

from2022-03-08->>till2022-05-02

Zohar Shafir

Cafe Yodfat

A residency program for Israeli artists

from2022-02-22->>till2022-05-01

I set Frank Barcelona on fire / Alina Orlov

Solo Exhibition

3/3/2022-23/4/2022

Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan

Cafe Yodfat - Residency for Israeli Artists

from2022-01-20->>till2022-02-14

Olivia Hild

Residency Program

from2022-01-01->>till2022-03-05

Alina Orlov

from2021-12-27->>till2022-02-12

All Things Must Pass / Elad Larom

Solo Exhibition

30/12/2021-17/2/2022

Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan

Opening: December 30th, 8pm

from2021-10-23->>till2021-12-12

And if there's no sea, then there's also no boat 

23/10/2021-11/12/2021

Curator: Ran Kasmy Ilan

8:00 pm

from2021-10-19->>till2022-05-31

Cafe Yodfat

from2021-10-14->>till2021-12-31

Keren Bergman

Cafe Yodfat

Residency Program for Israeli Artists

from2021-10-01->>till2021-12-17

Itay Marom

from2021-08-19->>till2021-10-16

Noa Giniger

Residency Program

from2021-07-10->>till2021-07-31

Anna Perach

Residency Program

from2021-06-19->>till2021-08-14

Jo / Shai Ignatz

Solo Exhibition

Curator: Leah Abir

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