Excavation Mark! Reveal Preserve Glorify / Hansen House Center for Design, Media and Technology

קרדיט צלם - פטריק היו, ואם בעוד אלף שנים, דימוי מתוך וידאו, 2017, HD וידאו, 22:14 דק', באדיבות האמן, ו-Jerwood/FVU Awards; פלס אמפייר, צמד, פרט, 2014, 288 עותקי A3 מודפסים, מידות משתנות, באדיבות גלריה ,Wentrup

Excavation Mark! 

Reveal Preserve Glorify

October 24 - November 23, 2018

Opening: October 24, 7 pm

Vernissage performance by Jason King with Max Clausen and Louisa Raspé, 8:30 pm

Closing: November 23, 2pm

Artists: Ilit Azoulay > Maayan Elyakim > Olivia Hild > Patrick Hough > 

Ronnie Karfiol > Jason King > Matan Oren > Peles Empire

Curator: Amit Shemma

Hansen House - Centre for Design, Media and Technology 

14 Gedalyahu Alon St., Jerusalem, Israel

Hours: Sunday-Thursday 10:00-18:00 Friday 10:00-14:00 

Free and open to the public

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excavation.mark.exhibition@gmail.com

Following its dictionary definition, the purpose of «Archaeology» as a science and as a methodology is to locate, study, and preserve human history. In this way, the field of research attempts to define and to describe a continuous historical sequence by analyzing similarities and differences, in order to classify and characterize human cultures based on real objects. These actual objects, discovered intentionally or accidentally, from the depths of the earth or from the seabed, are at the center of the «archaeological metaphor» whose purpose is to illuminate a spotlight and to create a parallel between the archeologist's practice and that of the artist. As such, the artistic object obtains its finished form from the thought of those real archaeological objects, and mainly by the way they are revealed. The exhibition Excavation Mark! Reveal Preserve Glorify In its group arrangement, will ask to diagnose and thereby emphasize the growing tendency of contemporary artists to walk on the path of the «archaeological metaphor» as an artistic practice that strives to expose and preserve ideas, objects of research, and different ideologies through the action of excavation.

    The selection of the various artists is based mainly on the practice they deal with as part of the process of their artistic object. The works do not simply presents the actual archaeological object, but rather illustrate a metaphorical excavation in the depths of history and reality, in order to reveal, preserve and, glorify various phenomena, ideas, and ideologies. The «archeological metaphor», in parallel to the exposure of the artistic practice, raises questions about the continuity of historical events, questions which try to reveal fixed timelines that often lead to concealment. Their action seeks to unravel all the threads woven by the patience of historians by multiplying differences, blurring lines of communication, and tries to make the passages more difficult and thus more challenging. 

The exhibition was conceived during the studies in the Master Program in Policy and Theory of the Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. For all press enquiries please contact: excavation.mark.exhibition@gmail.com 

In partnership with Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; Hansen House - Centre for Design, Media and Technology. Excavation Mark! is made possible with support of Artport, Tel-Aviv; Culture Ireland; Austrian Cultural Forum, Tel-Aviv; Goethe Institut, Israel.