Artists: Etti Abergel, Aysha E Arar, Miroslaw Balka, Douglas Gordon, Shai-Lee Horodi, Barak Ravitz, Ariel Schlesinger, Pavel Wolberg, Noa Zait, Adel Abdessemed, Miroslaw Balka, Latifa Echakhch, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Ortmeyer, Miri Segal, Lawrence Weiner, Pavel Wolberg
Exhibition title: Hope Against Hope
Venue: Dvir Gallery, , Israel, Brussels, Belgium
Date: September 6 – October 20, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Dvir Gallery
‘Hope Against Hope / Contre Tout Espoir’, dedicated to the memoirs of Nadejda Mandelstam (b. Russia, 1899 – 1980).
‘Hope Against Hope’ was first published in English in 1970 and ‘Hope Abandoned’ in 1972.
A masterpiece of prose as well as a model of biographical narrative and social analysis, the two books were key chapters in the new bible that the twentieth century had written for us, a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom. It is also a profound inspiration – a love story that relates the daily struggle to keep both love and art alive in the most desperate circumstances.
Nadezhda Mandelstam’s seemingly artless recollections offer so much more than descriptions of unpredictable terror. It is a world in which poetry is memorable, and the ability to learn poems by heart makes them easy to transmit.
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery,
Miroslaw Balka, Bonfire, 2013-2015, variable dimensions, unique, wood, 10 blinking electric bulbs
Miroslaw Balka, Bonfire, 2013-2015, variable dimensions, unique, wood, 10 blinking electric bulbs
Aysha E Arar, Plectrum, 2018, 180 x 510 cm, unique, spray on cotton fabric
Ariel Schlesinger, Tokio story, 2010-2018, 238 x 251 x 127 cm, unique, found Japanese gate
Ariel Schlesinger, Tokio story, 2010-2018, 238 x 251 x 127 cm, unique, found Japanese gate
Barak Ravitz, Knitter, 2016, 13 x 35 x 177 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP, cotton thread, wood, polyurethane rubber
Barak Ravitz, Knitter (detail), 2016, 13 x 35 x 177 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP, cotton thread, wood, polyurethane rubber
Etti Abergel, Early days, 2018, variable dimensions, unique, mixed media
Etti Abergel, Early days (detail), 2018, variable dimensions, unique, mixed media
Miroslaw Balka, 4 x 22 x 1018, 2010, 4 x 22 x 1018 cm, unique, steel
Miroslaw Balka, 4 x 22 x 1018 (detail), 2010, 4 x 22 x 1018 cm, unique, steel
Shai-Lee Horodi, Untitled (screenshot), 2016, 2min, unique, video
Noa Zait, Vile lust and shameful blasphemy II, 2018, 118 x 87 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP, inkjet prints, glue, masking tape
Noa Zait, Vile lust and shameful blasphemy V, 2018, 76 x 103 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP, inkjet prints, glue, masking tape
Pavel Wolberg, Women with wings (Kiev), 2014, 53.5 x 41 x 2 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Pavel Wolberg, Bears (Kiev), 2014, 53.5 x 41 x 2 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Pavel Wolberg, Old man in the mirror (Kosovo), 2009, 44 x 38 x 2 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Pavel Wolberg, Trees reflected on water (Jantuha), 2015, 54 x 46 x 2 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Pavel Wolberg, White clouds (Jantuha-Abkhavia), 2015, 44 x 38 x 2 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Douglas Gordon, Molotov action, Jerusalem stone (screenshot), 2012, 4’30’’, edition of 3 + 2 AP, HD video loop
Douglas Gordon, Molotov action, Jerusalem stone (screenshot), 2012, 4’30’’, edition of 3 + 2 AP, HD video loop
Lawrence Weiner, Anything added to something, 2009, variable dimensions, unique, language + materials referred to
Lawrence Weiner, Anything added to something, 2009, variable dimensions, unique, language + materials referred to
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Jonathan Monk, All the possible ways of lighting eight candles, 2012, 61.3 x 85.7 cm (each frame), unique, 20 framed prints, candels, wine bottles
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Hope Against Hope, 2018, exhibition view, Dvir Gallery, Brussels
Adel Abdessemed, Tins, Ich bin allein, 2017-2018, 115 x 85 x 3.5 cm, unique, recycled printed metal
Miroslaw Balka, 50 x 40 x 27, 2018, 50 x 40 x 27 cm, unique, concrete, brick, mirror
Latifa Echakhch, Sans titre (jardin exotique), 2018, 200 x 150 cm, unique, acrylic and concrete paint on canvas, aluminum and wooden frame
Pavel Wolberg, Abkhazia, 2018, 38 x 33 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP, inkjet print
Sarah Ortmeyer, SAD EIS (5, SAD EIS SERIES), 2012, 140 x 60 x 60 cm, unique, resin and paint
Sarah Ortmeyer, SAD EIS (4, SAD EIS SERIES), 2012, 140 x 60 x 60 cm, unique, resin and paint
Douglas Gordon, Independent from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.8 x 71.8 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Douglas Gordon, Mail from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.8 x 62.6 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Douglas Gordon, Times from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.8 x 71 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Douglas Gordon, Record from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.7 x 73.7 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Douglas Gordon, Sun from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.8 x 70.3 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Douglas Gordon, Guardian from August 12, 1999, 2011, 53.8 x 70.7 cm, edition of 24 + 6 AP, handmade offset lithograph on igepa archival paper
Miri Segal, Light Falling, 2012, 20 x 70 cm, edition of 6 + 2 AP, perspex mirror, digital print, spotlight
