What do you do with everything piled up in the studio?

 

Wandering is a central practice in Abergel's life and art. In the adjoining hall, large black-and-white paintings depict the movements and patterns of the spaces in which it operated. On the long vertical canvases several visual languages intersect: drawing, sketching, geometric and expressive abstract, brush smears of building paints, and astrological, Kabbalistic and topographic maps. The grid, the hit modernist network is familiar, crooked and entangled in paintings. Once the route is snail, once linear and angular, like traffic in urban spaces, streets, buildings, markets and alleys.

 

This is the world in which Abergel conducts herself and as can be seen it is both a metaphor and a concrete material reality. The white rectangles in the paintings, some wide open and some barred, are the doors and windows through which she is, the objects and images she collected and the bright light of Eretz Israel entered and left the spaces in which she operated.

 

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