Varda Yatom, one of the leading ceramic sculptors in Israel, lives and creates in Kibbutz Sasa in the Upper Galilee.
Her work deals with the body as a material that remembers – wounded, clinging, surviving – and the encounter between fracture and movement, memory and time.
The installation in the exhibition reveals a body of work that composes a material-metaphorical scene of continuous movement, struggle, and maintaining direction in the face of a world that is in constant motion.
Curator, Asia Dublin:
“What is not swept away
remains engraved
within the body
within time
like a boat
without an anchor
carries us onward.”
Time is not a straight line.
It is an irregular breath, a tide that comes even when everything seems quiet.
It is a fragment that moves within us – sometimes like a cry, sometimes like a wave that comes without a sound.
Within this movement, in a new exhibition, Varda Yatom seeks not to measure time, but to feel it:
as matter, as force, as weight in the body.
She does not describe a storm, but rather places us within it –
so that we feel the tension, the effort to rise, the place where we cling without knowing why.
An installation that is a stopping point within a great movement.
An invitation to listen – to what is being lost, to what remains.
To the time that passes through us like water.
Asia Dublin – Curator, designer and jeweler, lives in Adamit in the Western Galilee and has been evacuated since the beginning of the war on October 7.
Over the past few years, she has produced and initiated a wide range of projects in the Galilee in various fields. Over the past decade, she has curated dozens of exhibitions in various private and public spaces such as the Ghetto Fighters Gallery, the Rosh Hanikra Gallery and the Kabri Gallery. Asia started her career in the field of jewelry, developed a career as an interface designer in the high-tech field and is currently engaged in independent multidisciplinary work; curation, interior design, sustainable design, restoration, reconstruction and preservation.
Admission is free!
Where? JNF-USA Information Center, 168 Salah a-Din St., Old Akko
Phone: 072-3941110
Operating Hours:
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Varda Yatom was named one of the ten leading ceramic sculptors in the world, Israel’s Ministry of Culture awarded her its Prize for Design.
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