Homonyms

Hagai Ulrich on the Homonyms in Yossi Breger's last show, on the relations between single words and the continuum, and on the idea of the abstract whole

In the week following Yossi Breger's death, I went to see "the Guide for the Perplexed: Homonyms," his show at Dvir Gallery, where he placed 18 words on the walls: figure, image, woman, throne, sat, rose, stood, approached, touched, full, passed, foot, sadness, face, wind, eye, yud-he-vav-he, Sabbath. The homonyms – Hebrew words that repeatedly occur in the Bible, with various meanings – are written in white, each set in a black square framed in white. They were taken from the first part of Maimonides's "The Guide for the Perplexed", all words that hold more than one lexical indication or meaning, and, according to Maimonides, they should not be read literally. They are keys to understanding or experiencing an "abstract whole," and thus getting closer to the divinity.

Read the full article here