The Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem presents 'HeartQuake'

Wednesday, 10 December 2008 23:08

Jerusalem, Israel - The exhibition 'HeartQuake' is dedicated to exploring anxiety in its local and universal contexts. HeartQuake seeks to expose and to accentuate people’s emotional confrontation with their surroundings, and through the prism of anxiety to examine their responses as injurers and as injured - with the aim of understanding and influencing the dynamics of social and political relations. On exhibition through March of 2009 at The Museum on the Seam.

In the exhibition, anxiety becomes a complex symbol; it does not end with man’s sense of helplessness in the face of the realities of his existence; on the contrary, it holds a decisive potency both as warning signal and as existential utterance, whereby we can contemplate the meanings our life takes on. The exhibition seeks to proffer for consideration the tension between these two concepts by means of a range of creative works that examine anxieties – national, ethnic and global which undermine and challenge the personal and collective connections within which humanity functions.  The curatorial work included an active and productive dialogue with philosophical texts by major thinkers and writers as: Sigmund Freud, Voltaire, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhaba, Cathy Caruth, Aviezer Ravitzky Stephen c. Feinstein and Toni Morrison.

Exhibition curator: Raphie Etgar. . . The exhibition presents the following artists:

Anselm Kiefer (Germany); Adam Adach (Poland); Alfredo Jaar (Chile); Andree Korpys and Markus Loffler (Germany); Anna Baumgart (Poland); Asaf Ben Zvi (Israel); Bettina Pousttchi (Germany); Boaz Aharonovitch (Israel); Charles Sandison (England); Chiharu Shiota (Japan); Daniela Comani (Italy); Doris Buhler (Liechtenstein); Douglas Gordon (Scotland); Ewa Harabasz (Poland); Guli Silberstein (Israel); Krzysztof Wodiczko (Poland); Magnus Bartas (Sweden); Max Streicher (Canada); Noh Suntag (South Korea); Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson (Sweden); Pavel Wahlberg (Israel); Raed Bawayah (Palestinian Authority); Rafal Jakubowicz (Poland); Sarah Nind (Canada); Shai Kremer (Israel); Sharon Poliakine (Israel); Sophia Petrides (Greece); Stanislaw Koba (Poland); Stephen Kaluza (Germany);  Sue De Beer (USA); Vahram Aghasyan (Armenia); Vivian Bower (USA); Zuzanna Janin (Poland); Yael Bartana (Israel).

The Museum on the Seam is a socio-political contemporary art museum located in Jerusalem.  The Museum presents changing exhibitions that deal with the seam line of our national, ethnic and economic relations with the goal of raising controversial social issues for public discussion.