A Patched Map of Identity - Galia Bar Or - page 2

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filled with personal contexts, were collected in the exhibition "A Woman With Threads", 1995, In the Beit Hayotzer Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Textile was the most suitable medium for the path of biographical reconstruction she was going through at that stage of her life. Its essence, to follow the traces of the undone seams of self-identity. An identity that was woven in the shadows of a private, and collective trauma, was littered with torn patches of memories.

In the most concrete sense, textile suited the significant memories Mirjam had, focusing around the Jewish Yellow Badge, the rags worn by refugees, and fabrics carrying testimonies of pre-rift idenitities, such as a family napkin that survived, its edges embroidered with the initials of her mother's maiden-name. The titles of the works exhibited in the previous exhibition broadcast a laden message: "Information Coverage", "A Badge for Them"," There is/ There is not" , "Bad Dream", "Virtual Defenses", "Verbal Abuse", "Unbody", "Identity Photo", "Feminage".

The current exhibition, "Mappressions Loci," is Mirjam Bruck-Cohen's second solo exhibition, and it opens alongside four additional exhibitions of women artists, a cluster of exhibitions gathered by the Ein Harod Museum of Art under the title "Liminal" (Autumn 2001). The 5 exhibitions address architectural maps, the home, elusive geographical and mental boundaries of vision, identity and memory.

In the exhibition in Ein Harod Mirjam exhibits works from materials such as construction ropes, various fabrics, embroidery threads, nylon and lace. The point of departure for the art works are architectural plans of neighborhoods, villages and towns (mostly of Arab settlements) from which she created Mapressions in various techniques such as patchwork, weaving, embroidery, knitting, needlework, crochet, etc. The architectural maps are computer printouts, city plans of settlements designed and drawn by the Architect Dov Chernobroda. Some of the plans were realized, others were archived as visions that are probably not destined to take shape.

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