ARGAMAN JEWISH CULTURAL PROJECT
22.11.2021
PHOTO IS:RAEL – ANNUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
November 22nd, 2021 – Tel Aviv and Central Region
Our guide Hagar started with telling us the history of the 12-year old non-profit organization Photo IS:RAEL, whose mission is to minimize gaps between different social groups and generations through photography. A picture contains thousand worlds, as we say in Russian. This year the main theme is “Meeting Point”- between people or societies, between old and new, or something different. We saw a lot of great photographers. There was a big focus on ecological issues. One photographer shot touching and deep photos of street riots in Belarus in August 2020; another shot his family during their Aliya to Israel in the 1990’s, which was also sad story and raised a lot of questions. A third photographer collaborated with his daughter (from the time that she was three years old) about fears and they hope to work on this project for the next 50 years.
A lot of great pictures that make you think, and rethink some life positions. I like this new tradition of the Argaman project to visit Photo IS:REAL every year.
Sasha P.
HERZLIYA ART MUSEUM
November 18th, 2021 - Tel Aviv and Central Region
Maria Malach - art critic, specialist in Israeli modern art, and Jewish educator described at first how all 6 exhibitions at the Herzliya Art Museum are united by one theme. All these projects in one way or another transform everyday objects, reflecting the absurdity of reality and fear of the unknown - the power of the unconscious, the cycle of life and the "dark" side of artists' images. We walk through all the halls and talked about how our imagination influences our impressions from the art works. We discussed how modern art today devotes a lot of attention to how the viewer reads and transforms for himself via the images that the artist offers him. We even tried to invent a new different meanings to an artists’ works before Maria explained what they were all about. After the tour we discussed what we saw and what we would like to "take home", and about what to learn more.
I really like two amazing aspects of the Argaman project - that we can go to unknown places, only for locals, and that we always have deep discussion at the end of the event.
Svetlana H.
PHOTO IS:RAEL – ANNUAL EXHIBITION TOUR
November 22nd, 2021 – Tel Aviv and Central Region
Our guide Hagar started with telling us the history of the 12-year old non-profit organization Photo IS:RAEL, whose mission is to minimize gaps between different social groups and generations through photography. A picture contains thousand worlds, as we say in Russian. This year the main theme is “Meeting Point”- between people or societies, between old and new, or something different. We saw a lot of great photographers. There was a big focus on ecological issues. One photographer shot touching and deep photos of street riots in Belarus in August 2020; another shot his family during their Aliya to Israel in the 1990’s, which was also sad story and raised a lot of questions. A third photographer collaborated with his daughter (from the time that she was three years old) about fears and they hope to work on this project for the next 50 years.
A lot of great pictures that make you think, and rethink some life positions. I like this new tradition of the Argaman project to visit Photo IS:REAL every year.
Sasha P.
HERZLIYA ART MUSEUM
November 18th, 2021 - Tel Aviv and Central Region
Maria Malach - art critic, specialist in Israeli modern art, and Jewish educator described at first how all 6 exhibitions at the Herzliya Art Museum are united by one theme. All these projects in one way or another transform everyday objects, reflecting the absurdity of reality and fear of the unknown - the power of the unconscious, the cycle of life and the "dark" side of artists' images. We walk through all the halls and talked about how our imagination influences our impressions from the art works. We discussed how modern art today devotes a lot of attention to how the viewer reads and transforms for himself via the images that the artist offers him. We even tried to invent a new different meanings to an artists’ works before Maria explained what they were all about. After the tour we discussed what we saw and what we would like to "take home", and about what to learn more.
I really like two amazing aspects of the Argaman project - that we can go to unknown places, only for locals, and that we always have deep discussion at the end of the event.
Svetlana H.
