5th Exhibition in the 17th Nidbach series: Raspberry

Curator: Gabi Kricheli

As a last act of service, Inbar Ben Ishay extracts images from objects which have already been gathered for storage in a warehouse. She picks a flower from an old blanket, extracts a piece of jewelry from the barbecue’s charcoal and with a branch stabs the heart of a sculpted bird with silent viciousness.
Delicate drawings recede into the wall, the result of attentiveness and strenuous action, side by side with charcoal and clay reliefs. “Common” and used materials receive the status of “expensive” and of rare metals. Images of disasters which occurred in these spaces, such as signs holding bad news – emerge from the ruins.

On the border of a pecan tree field with her back to her parent’s home, locked in a family storage room, Ben Ishay wanders distractedly over the stump of a family tree every time she passes from room to room. Action after action, Ben Ishay creates a circle of images, an indication of private sadness in the collective space of sorrow.