Light Through the Fracture

The Light Through the Fracture exhibition examines the trauma of the current war through an artistic prism and seeks to sketch a movement from fracture towards a possibility of healing. The works in the exhibition propose to convert fear, loss and anxiety into material, image, and visual action. Trauma is nothing new for the Jewish People. It is woven into its collective memory and cultural identity from countless previous generations of persecution, exile, and war. The exhibition seeks to divert the gaze from the fracture itself to the act of fusion. The fracture is not presented solely as evidence of injury but also as an opening, as an intermediary space in which pain, grief, and fear exist alongside the option of cautious renewal. In the works of Uzi Amrani and Amir Tomashov, objects and materials charged with meaning come into play, each treated through a different yet intersecting material logic. In Debra Bernstein's works, the ceramic fragments are assembled and rejoined to form deliberately imperfect vessels where the fracture lines remain visible. Anat Greenberg's sketches also present a collapsing body rewrapped together in nature. Ronen Sharabani's video installation features the Hebrew words for "war time", "solder time", and "healing time". The link between contemporary art and damaged heritage artifacts raises questions about ongoing narrative: from exile, Holocaust and establishment of a state, via the traumas of Israel's wars, to the present fracture.