Scream - Coming 2022
A constant sense of paralyzing fear, despair, layered darkness slowly crawling up the spine, of a deafening scream building inside, everywhere. A feeling that is almost tangible yet unable to be contained.
For centuries, ongoing injustice and disproportionate violence against black people witnessed worldwide. The stories of many were pushed to the margins and hidden in the fog of history. Faces and names were covered with layers of concealment, as if they did not exist as human beings - with dreams, with a future to look forward to and the possibility to live their life to the fullest.
‘Scream’, a groundbreaking artistic initiative, is a work of collaboration with Amiram Eini, a world-renowned artist, that aims to disperse the thick fog and tell the stories of those whose fundamental right to liberty and justice was brutally violated. The eye-opening artworks will powerfully reflect the complex, fearful reality in which African-Americans live, creating a thought-provoking, filtered yet not softened experience that punches the soft belly.
Our vision is to create an exhibition that will present 20 installations – each carries the name of a victim, captures and reflects the essence of the inconceivable story of innocent people who were living their lives or happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The inspiration for each installation is based on in-depth research that examined thousands of stories of violent justice discrimination against African-Americans, from which the stories of 20 victims were chosen to be expressed in the first phase, among them: Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, “The Central Park Five” (Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam), George Floyd, Oscar Juliuss Grant III, and Breonna Taylor. All the stories have one thing in common: they deal with people for whom there is a consensus – they were innocent. The number of stories is inconceivable, and each and every one is deserved to be told. Therefore, the 20 installations are the first episode of a continuous narrative.
Each installation / artwork will be a multi-layered collage that fuses together materials and textures and merges glass, leather, photography and painting, as well as reference elements; a toy train, a blood-stained shirt, a piece of metal – all capturing and projecting the essence of fear. Each layer plays a role, and each has a meaning and a purpose. Due to the materials’ composition of each layer, the installations are heavy and cold as a rock, creating a jolting experience as the feeling of gravity and coldness seeps into the consciousness and reflect the complexity of the lives that were lost for no reason.
It is important to note that this unique composition of the materials and the singular formation of the layers create a one-of-a-kind piece that cannot be replicated.
Collaborating Artist - Amiram Eini
"15 seconds" - First presented at 2012, “15 seconds” provides a glimpse into the shaky and unstable daily life in the Gaza surroundings. The exhibition expresses the stressed 15 seconds between the first sound of siren to reaching safely to a shelter.
"I guess I must be wrong" - A video art that documents and presents the plight of African refugees that live in Israel since early 2020.
"Chaos" - Out of the global disorder and chaos, Amiram Eini creates new images of construction and creation. The chaos represented in these works stimulates the mind and the heart and creates absurd dramatic positions that reflect the longing for correction and rebuild of a distracted world.
The exhibition emphasizes the surrealist dimension with body paintings saturated with sexual symbols and reveals the power of Amiram Eini as an expressive figurative painter.