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Dear friends and colleagues,
I thought it would be nice to update you all from time to time about what's new with my work.
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"Untitied Feast", detail
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This year, I exhibited my work in two ceramic Biennales: in Slovenia and in Belgium, but the highlight of the year was in the summer; my work, "Untitled Feast" is currently being exhibited in Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare, England.
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This is an international art exhibition in the dismal amusement park created by the anonymous street artist Banksy – "Dismaland Bemusement Park". Over 50 artists from 17 nations participate in this event.
The reactions to the exhibition are unbelievable: the world media is constantly covering the event and millions of people try to purchase tickets to see it.
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Standing in line to see the exhibition
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The crowd outside Dismaland
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Dismaland, defined by Banksy as a "family theme park unsuitable for children" is a different kind of art exhibition. Banksy, the artist and curator, confronts the viewer with dismal, disturbing, real-life content that is displayed in an interactive amusement park.
This contrast between the miserable and enjoyable creates a very powerful experience. The viewers find themselves enjoying a carousel ride with a butcher next to a slaughtered horse; playing with remote control boats of refugees with dead people in the water; smiling to a camera for a souvenir photo as paparazzi with a dead princess (Cinderella / Diana) right after her fatal accident; happily trying to "fish" rubber ducks from a pool after an oil spill; and many more examples.
This is the genius of it - very dismal, but everyone enjoys it.
A shocking experience that remains for a long time.
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"Dismaland", private openning night
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Within the amusement park, stands a circus tent with a sign above its entrance that says: "THE SLEEP OF REASON". My work "Untitled Feast" is exhibited on a round table in the center of the tent.
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The circus tent in Dismaland
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The work consists of dozens of tableware pieces: cups, teapots, sugar bowls and piles of plates from which human fingers and mouths emerge. In this combination of the 'still' and the 'alive' joined as one, I try to change the way in which we observe useful tableware. The useful, passive, tableware can now be perceived as an active object, aware of itself and its surroundings - responding to it.
On the table in the center of the tent, the pieces interact with each other, as if leaning towards each other, possibly feeding each other, escaping or following one another or simply remaining alone.
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In the tent, around the table, there are ten chairs. Around the chairs are wonderful sculptures of creatures and beasts, including Damien Hirst's Unicorn, Dorcas Casey's Beasts, Scott Hove's 'Cakeland' series and Banksy's "Rabbit in a Hat".
The tent can be seen as a "freak show" tent from the past. An installation in which the creatures and beasts gather for a feast around the table, but the tableware is busy with itself. Like a story within a story
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Future Lectures
I will speak about my work and Dismaland in two lectures:
On the 3rd of October as part of the "Fresh Paint Family" event in Tel-Aviv and on the 6th of November in the Binyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center (Tel-Aviv).
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