Brighter Than Thousand Suns | A solo show by Yeudit Shlosberg-Yogev<\/p>\n
Curators: Sala-manca
\nMamuta Center for Contemporary Art at the Hansen House
\n15.3.18 \u2013 11.5.18<\/p>\n
Opening: 15.3.18 \u00a0 20:00<\/p>\n
Opening hours:\u00a0Mon. and Tuesd: 12:00-16:00, Wed. 14:00-18:00, Friday: 10:00-14:00<\/p>\n
In 1978, atomic scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski shoved his head into a particle accelerator to fix a malfunction. A photon beam that was shooting around in the accelerator hit his head at the speed close to the speed of light. The scientist claimed he did not feel pain, but saw a light that was \u201cbrighter than a thousand suns.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Yehudit Shlosberg-Yogev\u2019s first solo exhibition, titled \u201c<\/span>Brighter Than a Thousand Suns<\/span>\u201d (after the book of that title on the Manhattan Project)<\/span> contains apocalyptic and poetic images that are fascinating and disturbing at the same time. Like Bugorski, for Shlosberg-Yogev, too\u2014who created these works as part of her tenure as Artist in Residence at the Mamuta Art Center, the atomic bomb is the driving force.<\/span><\/p>\n The exhibition is an invitation to experience the basement space of Mamuta at Hansen House as a sanctuary for visual remains moments after the great disaster\u2014images that appear to be taken from an archeological journey through the realms of human terror\u2014from dread of the magnitude of human power to fear of no return.<\/span><\/p>\n In one of the works\u2014<\/span>A Small Step for a Man<\/span>\u2014an artificial moon appears in the desert, next to a single man fighting the wind. Is this how Shlosberg-Yogev envisions the dream of the last survivor? And what lies in the man\u2019s futile action? Is it beauty, pathos and solitude\u2014or humor and hope, as well?<\/span><\/p>\n In another work\u2014<\/span>The Journey of the Dead<\/span>\u2014Shlosberg-Yogev created a documentary film shot from the locomotive of a freight train through in the Desert of Zin in southern Israel. The train is traveling from nowhere to nowhere, passing by the Israeli nuclear reactor that we are not supposed to know that we know is there. The train\u2019s journey, which contains many references to the history of cinema, does not document the departure from the reactor complex\u2014the plant, production and progress\u2014but rather the void, the secret and the threat that it contains.<\/span><\/p>\n The series <\/span>Encyclopedias<\/span> expresses a yearning for an aesthetic form of absolute knowledge coupled with revulsion from the actions of man. The encyclopedias of 1908 seek to bring together all of world knowledge in beautiful volumes. The two world wars had not yet taken place, and the new century seemed promising and hopeful. Shlosberg-Yogev plays with the encyclopedias, adding simple mechanisms and creating childish games of beauty and magic, combined with documentary material from nuclear experiments.<\/span><\/p>\n Brighter Than a Thousand Suns<\/span> offers a sensory preoccupation with existential questions: our relationship with nature, issues of control and restriction, and various aspects of art\u2019s approach to nature\u2014from observation to framing, from intervention to withdrawal. The human presence at the exhibition, mediated through camera and word, gives all of these fascinating interpretations and a great beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Lea and Diego<\/span><\/p>\n Video works: Photographer: Itamar Mender-Flohr |<\/span> Actor: Eyal Flumendorf | <\/span>Video Edition and Post Production: Ofek Shemer and Ada Rimon<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWatch From a Safe Distance\u201d – Sound Editing: Ofek Shemer and Ada Rimon | <\/span>Electronics: Amir Bolzman<\/span><\/p>\n Books – Electronics: Omri David | <\/span>Cannon mechanism: Itamar Mendes-Flohr | <\/span><\/p>\n Monitors: Yaniv Sheinfeld<\/span><\/p>\n Thanks: Itamar Mendes-Flohr, Ori Mizrachi , Alon Gaash, Galia Lulko, Nava Frenkel, Michael Marziano – Israel Train, Eytan Yogev<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mamuta Art and Research Center<\/p>\n Directors: Sala-Manca |<\/span> Mamuta Staff: Yoav Fisch (technical advisor and show installing), Tamar Drozd ( office, production) | <\/span>Graphic Design: Maya Shleifer<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brighter Than Thousand Suns | A solo show by Yeudit Shlosberg-Yogev Curators: Sala-manca Mamuta Center for Contemporary Art at the Hansen House 15.3.18 \u2013 11.5.18 Opening: 15.3.18 \u00a0 20:00 Opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6008,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"exhibitions_categories":[167],"exhibition_status":[498],"artist":[],"class_list":["post-6010","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibitions_categories-exhibition","exhibition_status-past"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n