{"id":13215,"date":"2025-08-06T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=13215"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:17:31","slug":"shira-kamrad","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/exhibitions\/shira-kamrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition <em>Temporary Flood<\/em> presents new works created by Shira Kamrad over the past year, depicting dimly lit nocturnal scenes, dotted with lights that twinkle like artificial stars. These works continue Kamrad\u2019s ongoing inquiry into the manifestations of light in painting. Even when she portrays external light sources\u2014a string of colored lights, car headlights on a highway, a lamppost, or light emanating from a nightclub\u2014the light seems to shimmer from within the painting itself, reflecting complex, perhaps even emotional, interrelations between darkness, light, and shade.<\/p>\n<p>Kamrad depicts urban spaces\u2014marginal areas typical of life in the big city\u2014and turns her gaze to the incidental and the transient. She captures mundane, accidental moments doomed to fade and pass, uncovering beauty and pain within them. The figures appear solitary, self-absorbed, and pensive. Even when they engage in human interaction\u2014whether in reality or in a cinematic scene\u2014it offers neither closeness nor tenderness: the conversations are all but lighthearted, the encounter is far from intimate. In some instances, there is no eye contact between the figures\u2014their gaze is cast downward, sideways, inward. One painting portrays two young men talking in a dark bar. Their similarity is so resonant, as if it were an internal conversation, perhaps between two aspects of the same personality or two inner voices.<\/p>\n<p>Kamrad floods the canvas with thinned, translucent layers of diluted paint, allowing the phosphorescent base colors to permeate them in a dim, sometimes toxic light, like a memory that has yet to settle. The saturated surface dictates a painting that is fast and expressive yet sparse, free and liberated in its gestures, scarred with scratches of pain. The painted surfaces seem to dissolve into one another; patches of darkness and light merge and blur, evoking a somewhat surreal feeling, sometimes disconcerting, that oscillates between wakefulness and dream. It is no coincidence that her exhibitions bear names drawn from the worlds of water\u2014<em>Thick<\/em>, <em>Moist Soil<\/em>, <em>Dissolving<\/em>, and now <em>Temporary Flood<\/em>. Water\u2014or the sensation it stirs\u2014is not only a recurring formal motif, but the way the painting acts, transpires, trickles, and makes waves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ravit Harari<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Events in the exhibition:<\/h5>\n<p>Saturday 6.9.25, at 12pm | Gallery talk in with the artist <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Shira Kamrad and the curator Ravit Harari<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 6.9.25, at 12pm | Gallery talk in with the artists Shira Kamrad &amp;\u00a0 Assf Rahat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13316,"template":"","categories":[204],"artists":[5521,5524],"exhibition":[5540],"curator":[3367,5522],"years":[5460],"class_list":["post-13215","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solo-exhibitions","artists---en","artists-shira-kamrad","exhibition-temporary-flood","curator-ravit-harari","curator---en","years-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/13215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}