Becoming Plastic / Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center

הצילומים באדיבות Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center

Ceramics meets plastic in an installation that challenges improving the attitude to the environment!

"Making plastic" is an installation consisting of 27 ceramic bodies hanging from the ceiling. The Jacaranda Curry installation exhibition, which deals with the difficult processes going on on Earth, will be displayed during the month of July at the Binyamini Center for Contemporary Ceramic Art.

Curator: Dr. Eilat Zohar.

Opening: Friday, July 8th   At 11:00 p.m. Closing: August 27th.

Opening hours : Monday to Thursday: 11: 00-19: 00. Friday and Saturday: 11: 00-14: 00

The exhibition "Making Plastic": A Coin for Waste , by the artist Jacrenda Curry will be displayed in July-August at the Beit Binyamini Gallery in Tel Aviv and will feature bodies made of ceramic with glaze and acrylic paint, combined with polystyrene crystal grains and techniques of pottery, sculpture and ceramic molds.

The installation appears as hanging between heaven and earth, between ceiling and floor, and gives a sense of buoyancy or the possibility of looking at the floating creatures from an underwater point of view, which allows detachment from the existential and the everyday in favor of a focused understanding of existence.

The installation deals with the dystopian processes going on on the planet during the Anthropocene - a world full of hope and a desire for progress, in recent years the great tragedy of the earth has become clear: The delicate balance on the surface of our planet.

According to the curator, Dr. Eilat Zohar: The concept of " Becoming Plastic"   Inspired by the writing of Jill Deleuze and Felix Guattari who placed special emphasis on the concept   Done in their philosophy, a concept that indicates how much Deleuze and Guattari believed in processes and constant change: no entity is fixed, no state is stable. Things are in a process of constant change, and this change is what they called the change, with the change leading each time to a new existential state. For them, change is an essential part of human existence and of natural existence, and they emphasize that this constant movement of change, repetition and the creation of differences - is an integral part of the essence of existence.

Plastic stands in many ways the opposite of ceramics: while ceramics is a material and technique that has attracted many people in recent years, out of a desire to return to an old, natural and nostalgic world, in a human dimension versus a world that operates at an inhuman pace, too fast and due to longing for manual labor and use of natural materials. While working and creating a container (usually) in simple and inclusive troubles   - Corey transforms the creators, and cruelly appropriates the ceramics, so that it becomes plastic. It does not spare us, and does not share in the celebration of nature and the "return to the earth." Corey makes in the ceramic material   Use, and creates from it what we are all going to be made of: plastic. It is a dystopian position, one that seeks to present the processes of loss within which we live, and the destruction contained in our every step. The making of plastic works against the popular imagination and the prevailing assumption regarding the qualities of the ceramics and its purposes. The transformation of ceramics into plastic, using various plastic accessories to create castings and body parts - is the guiding line from which Cory operates. The very transition from the heat of the ceramic to the cold of the plastic, from the gray earthiness of the ceramic material, to the glowing colors of the plastic on its various coatings, might have been a kind of celebration of color, but in the present context, it becomes a poisonous poison. Within the environment. The combination of clay castings, perishable techniques, bright but peeling colors, the use of plastic utensils as a source for castings or parts of them - sits at the heart of Corey's work.

Photos: Ilan Amichai

Jacranda Curry was born in 1966 in Mexico City. Immigrated to Israel in 1987. She graduated from the Ceramic Design Department at Bezalel Cum laude in 1991, and since then has been engaged in ceramics in her private studio in Tel Aviv. She has been a lecturer in the Ceramic Design Department at Bezalel since 2006. She teaches at Beit Binyamini In Tel Aviv, since 2011 .   Exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and the United States, winner Erika and Ludwig Jelson Prize, Bezalel Prize, Jerusalem Academy of Art and Design for Excellence in Studies and Blumenthal Prize for Pottery.

Beit Binyamini, the Center for Contemporary Ceramics. 17 Ha'amal St., Tel Aviv.