Sigalit Landau and Yudith Levin

Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv presents the second part of the duo show featuring Sigalit Landau and Yudith Levin, prominent figures in Israeli art. The exhibition highlights a monumental new sculpture by Sigalit Landau, along with two paintings by Yudith Levin created in the past two months, reflecting the current war. Additionally, the exhibition includes one of Levin's historical works on wood.

Sometimes I feel like

a motherless child
A long way from home.
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Sigalit Landau and Yudith Levin, 2023
Exhibition view
Dvir Gallery / Tel Aviv
photo credit: Daniel Hanoch
- Yudith Levin, Pieta - פיאטה, 2023
  
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- Yudith Levin, 7.10.2023 - שור מועד, 2023
  
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Yudith Levin
Sleeping Amor (Amor & Psyche) – (אמור הישן (אמור & פסיכה, 1984

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Sigalit Landau
ISHMAEL, ISAAC AND SHE-CAMEL, 2023
In the past year, I worked on a sculpture of a live size female camel, using materials such as iron, paper pulp, fabric and threads. One side of the she-camel sculpture, depicts the animal breastfeeding two boys, mirroring the famous Capitoline Wolf sculpture, where under the she-wolf teats, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus nurse. The brothers nourishing from the she-camel teats are Ishmael and Isaac. In Antonio del Pollailo’s sculpture, the nurturing she-wolf represents a symbolic connection to the city of Rome. She finds the twins under a fig tree, nurses them, thus saves them from death. The rest, including the rivalry between them, belongs to history/mythology. In Israeli art and culture, the camel symbolizes local romanticism and the way of life of the Arab inhabitants before Zionism. The camel is also associated with ancient times - biblical/local/Canaanite. In terms of the plot in this creation, a condensed tale of brothers unfolds - who, as is known, become enemies. This is a scene that could happen as a play in the herd of Abraham - all this before Ishmael's mother, Hagar, is condemned by Sarah, his mother, and banished. An act of cruel jealousy between women. An act that carries great disgrace and its consequences.

The common father for Muslims and Jews is Abraham.

The back side of the sculpture is less utopian and opens up completely, revealing details referring to the Biblical story while addressing the current political situation.
Additionally, we also see, on the other side of the sculpture, the seams of my sculpting technique using tears, thread webs, rivets and other elements. Another important detail for me, is that she-camel milk is known to provide nutrition for those suffering from Crohn's disease and colitis (mostly prevalent among Ashkenazim). This milk is not marketed in Israel because camels and she-camels are considered ritually impure since they do not have a split hoof. The use of the milk (I suffered from colitis in the past) is thus done discreetly - Bedouin tribes distribute it to the homes of patients suffering from this autoimmune disease.

Sigalit Landau
All images are Courtesy of the Artists and Dvir Gallery

photo credit: Daniel Hanoch, Yotam From
Artworks
Sigalit Landau
There for Good, 2023
video 4k, without sound
loop
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs

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Sigalit Landau

Sigalit Landau born 1969, Jerusalem, Israel. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Landau is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, photography and sculpture. Her ongoing Dead Sea art project, a magnum opus, comprises artworks in diverse media. These works become a physical reality hovering between life and death, subsequently transformed into salt. In Landau’s creative process the materials change states, transgress cultural categories of obedience, and are doomed eternally to salt. In the Dead Sea, to be turned into salt is to be turned into the opposite state of the living. Her art pieces are cultivated with salt crystals, like an oyster farm, using an organic process to transform mundane, everyday, usually useless artifacts into objects of mesmerizing and haunting beauty. For Landau, the Dead Sea is a mystical, enchanted site. One with significance from her past, dominating her presence, and marking the future. It is where creative rituals are performed that transform her used objects into works of art.
Artists
Yudith Levin

Yudith Levin born 1949, Ein Vered, Israel, where she lives and works.

Levin is considered one of the key figures in Israeli art. Over an artistic career spanning over more than four decades, she has been creating paintings on both traditional and nontraditional supports, covering canvases as well as scraps of discarded plywood found on the streets of Tel Aviv with expressive, gestural brushstrokes and semi-abstract figures and landscapes. By combining abstraction and figuration and using deliberately vague titles, Levin makes evocative works that are open to varied readings. The artist confronts the viewer with a borderline painting – in-between nothingness and a whole universe, between chaos and diamond, between a dump and flight. One of the places where Levin’s work deviates from the rational is the lack of distinction between figurative and abstract. Her figurative paintings are created like abstract paintings, from gestures which are not underlain by any figurative plan or intention.