Familiar Stranger by Maya Shleifer

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Familiar Stranger | Maya Shleifer
Curators: Sala-Manca
Opening hours:
Tues.-Wed.: 10:00-14:00
Thurs: 14:00-18:00
Friday: 11:00-14:00
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15.9-17.11

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Passersby, people on the train, women who meet during walks, passengers on the bus – others and strangers are the inspiration for Maya Shleifer’s series of works, which explores the world of familiar strangers as she imagines it.
In the exhibition, Maya’s illustrations gain another dimension through various techniques: from mythological devices that hark back to the early days of cinema like Zoetrope to physical computing. The installations in the exhibition hold a dialogue with the world of pop up books and incorporate projections of moving images and static illustrations in varying degrees of interactivity. The space in which Maya’s images are scattered echo the world of filmmaker Georges Méliès and animator William Kentridge, as well as the world of old children’s books.
Maya is an illustrator and a designer. We worked together for the first time when she was still a student at Bezalel, when she designed the first issue of Hearat Shulayim and devised the journal’s aesthetic line. In the 15 years that have passed since, she designed fascinating children’s books, among them “It’s Not Easy Being a Superhero”, “Princess Zohara,” and “The Bunny Who Wanted to be a Tree,” and was chief designer at TheMarker newspaper. All the while, she continued to create her own personal works.
This exhibition, which is Maya’s first in the art field, brings us back together. In this reunion which also we joined forces with Guy Yitzhaki, Nir Yahalom, Yuval Kedem, Studio Poink, Ofir Gal and Yuri Smertenko creating for Maya’s world of motion a space that is somewhere between an open studio, a laboratory, and a cabinet of curiosities.

Programing: Guy Yitzhaki
The wheel mechanism in ”The World is Round”: Yuval (Galileo) Kedem
Technical supervisor and Zoetrope: Nir Yahalom
Technical assistant: Yuri Smertenko
Sound: Ofir Gal
Animation: Studio Poink

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About Us

The Mamuta Project is a center for artistic creation, encounters, research, and display of art. The Center, is an artist’s run space, developed and directed by the Sala-Manca Group. Mamuta is comprised of artists’ workspaces; video, sound, and electronics labs; a wood, metal, and plastics workshop. The goal of the project is to advance art projects and to create a framework for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation.

Mamuta offers guidance and support for the development of its artists’ individual projects, and initiates and produces projects at the Center as well as at other sites in and outside of Jerusalem—in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Israel and abroad. The project is dedicated to creating conditions for developing an active community of artists, allowing for personal development alongside collaborative work, through an engagement with the place and time.

A project by Sala-Manca Group (through Hearat Shulaym Foundation)

With the generous support of:

Ostrovsky Family Fund, Leichtag Foundation

From 2009 to August 2012 Mamuta project operated at El-Dan House, thanks to the kind support of Daniela Passal z”l, as a joint project by Hearat Shulaym and the Jerusalem Foundation. Since November 2013 Mamuta Center it operates at Hansen House.