5th exhibition in the 19th Nidbach series

“Juklook’s Service,” the installation by Oded Yaakov, is an imaginary,
chaotic realm, enveloping disarmed military elements. Hybrid and grotesque imagery unveils the world of a young artist, examining his identity in a global as well as a local Israeli artistic context.

Yaakov combines military syntax with a painterly one, in a way both ominous and parodic. Art, connoting freedom, imagination and free speech is enmeshed in the Israeli code, as he paints on khaki colored Cordura fabric or sews sculptural objects, such as army vests and assorted casings that resemble dismembered body parts or portraits.

“Juklook” is the brand of sewing machine that is personified in the installation, a fictional character, disrupting the appropriate mode of fabrication and inciting a flush of images overflowing the space and accumulating as in a play or shadow theater.