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Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv will host a new photography exhibition by photographer Daniel Chechik. The exhibition - "Dust and Tears" - was supposed to be displayed in a gallery in Kibbutz Be'eri, which burned down during the events of October 7. Curator: Sophie Berson Mackay of Barry Gallery. The exhibition opens on January 19 and will be on public view until June 2024. The exhibition will present works of crisis and chaos and their potential for growth and internal change.
Eretz Israel Museum Director General Ami Katz said: "The physical structure of the Be'eri Gallery burned down on the terrible morning of October 7, but its artistic existence as well as its spiritual and emotional existence cannot be destroyed. We can't. And this is an allegory of the reality in which we have been living since that day."
Exhibition curator Sophie Berzon Mackay: "This collaboration has given rise to a correct and important exhibition at this time. These days we need and need spaces of culture in its deepest sense – the one that connects us to the emanation of the life force, and its ability to fertilize the earth with the possibility of dreaming and creating."
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Dust and Tears New Exhibition/Photo: Daniel Chechik
Dust and Tears New Exhibition/Photo: Daniel Chechik
Dust and Tears New Exhibition/Photo: Daniel Chechik
Dust and Tears New Exhibition/Photo: Daniel Chechik
Dust and Tears New Exhibition/Photo: Daniel Chechik
Daniel Chechik is an artist, photographer, founder and editor of the photography blog of Haaretz newspaper. He has exhibited in leading museums and galleries in Israel, New York, Kassel, San Francisco, Sweden, Berlin, Hamburg and India. HIS WORKS ARE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART, RAMAT GAN MUSEUM OF ISRAELI ART, PETER BLUM GALLERY IN NEW YORK, UM AL-FAHM ART GALLERY, MUSEUM FOR SEPULCHRAL CULTURE, MARK RICH FOUNDATION, INSTITUTE FRANÇAISE, AND A NUMBER OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
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