Artists: Boaz Arad, Talia Chetrit, Nicole Eisenman, Anna Glantz, Noa Glazer, Omer Halperin, Lena Henke, Eran Nave, Hava Mehutan, Michal Samama, Lior Waterman
Exhibition title: Tiny Hands
Curated by: Naama Arad
Venue: Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Date: July 20 – August 30, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Sommer Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Tiny Hands, a group exhibition curated by gallery artist Naama Arad. The exhibition presents artworks that reflect upon relationships between a body and an object. In this process of reflection fixed values and notions are smudged to a point where the concept of “human” stretches and bends. The participating artists use a variety of media and materials in order to blend categories and loosen divisions between things in the world.
Unlike the planet, art has always belonged to the human. Like language, it cannot be read outside of the cultural. This exhibition aims to project a psychological question onto culture. It pauses on little moments of intimacy and pleasure in an attempt to form relationships and highlight connections. In this age of technocratic reality, the human is reduced to personal data and devoured by an algorithm. As we remain passive in the face of a techno-industry and raging global economy, art could be an opportunity to make fun of ourselves.
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Talia Chetrit, Soda, 1995/2015, framed silver gelatin print, 59 x 52 cm
Eran Nave, Deep Sleep, 2014-2019, sand, fabric, wood, plastic, variable dimensions
Eran Nave, Deep Sleep, 2014-2019, sand, fabric, wood, plastic, variable dimensions
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Nicole Eisenman, Food Fetish, 1999, India ink, oil, charcoal and gesso on paper, 117 x 117 cm
Michal Samama, Move Like a Body, 2013-2019, performance
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Hava Mehutan, Woman With Dog, 1956, wood, 63 x 17 x 8.5 cm
Omer Halperin, On the Table, 2017, Charcoal on paper, 78 x 56 cm
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Boaz Arad, Pinocchio, 2017, mixed media, 119 x 51 x 52 cm
Noa Glazer, Filter, 2015, rattan, Chiniese straw, 78 x 83 x 83 cm
Tiny Hands, 2019, exhibition view, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Anna Glantz, Pinch, 2013, oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
Lior Waterman, We Don’t Believe Them, 2016, sound installation
