7th Exhibition in the 13th Nidbach series: Je t’aime

7th. exhibition In the 13th Nidbach series

Exhibition No. 7 in the 13th Nidbach series – Keren Marie Sellem’s work is presented in two spaces – the mother’s and the daughter’s. The Image of the daughter, clad in a bridal veil, reminds the “Annunciation” scene in Art history presenting Mary and the Angel in two separate spaces. This separation points to the scene being an intimate moment of inner insight announcing a physical and mental change in Mary. The same change is possible as a product of the accordance in the second space – the space of the Mother (=Angel). The two spaces present one by the other and the corridor connecting them, are associations to the splitting of the sell. The annonciation and recognition of the long awaited Je t’aime are what allowes the change and cutting-off. (Dan Reisner – Curator)

Keren Sellam presents a work which exists in two spaces – The space of the mother and the space of the daughter.
The image of the daughter wearing a wail carries a reminder to the annunciation scene in Art History, in which Mary and the Angel are placed in two separate spaces.
This separation points to the annunciation as an intimate moment of deep inner insight caring with it a change (physical and mental) in Mary.

The same change is made possible as a result of the event it the second space – the mother’s – angel’s.
The two spaces placed side by side, and the corridor connecting them, an association to the splitting of a sell, that just a while ago was one, and now is two.

The mother’s sell contains the secrets and the layers of her personal history. A sell as a memory fountain, filled up to its ends, expressed gently and intimately by pain and subs kin sensitivity, as words coming out of her body – unable to be expressed verbally.

The annunciation and the recognition of the long awaited Je t’aime – are the very thing allowing the disconnection and change.

Dan Reisner, Curator