ManLTD, 2013
Shira Shoval and Shlomo Abrahmov

A surface upon which items are meticulously arranged – resembling the desk of an archaeologist who engages in classifying findings. Careful scrutiny of the items that look like remnants, reveals a similarity in morphology and texture. Some of them are made of ceramic clay, and some where found in different locations and different periods (stones, fossils, bones; scraps of iron and broken pottery).

The project creates a meeting place between Shlomo Abrahmov’s collection, inspired by the study of culture and the work of Shira Shoval who is a textile artist, but responds here in clay to the items in the collection. The way these are exhibited blurs the boundaries between the “real” and the “artistic” intensifies the strength of the object as memory in a dialogue between a ready made object and an artifact, and highlights the historical and cultural baggage of the creative act.

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