“Signals” Exhibition – Rehovot Municipal Gallery
Group exhibition – installation, painting and drawing
Language inspired the Signals Exhibition, where the artists were willing to undergo a process leading them from a recognized constructed language to a new personal language expressing the longing for other means of communication, and for ambiguous codes. The artists turn to different sources of inspiration: fire and sand, markings of geographical maps, disruption of various languages and influence of the language of the deaf and blind. The interesting techniques chosen by the artists individualize each and every participant and form a multicolored mosaic of works.
Works by Raya Trinker: Grandpa Moshe Didn’t Tell
“Homage to the Red Sea” Exhibition – Janko-Dada Museum
Marcel Yanko 120th anniversary
Through the project “Homage to the Red Sea” we have chosen to mark 120 years since the birth of the artist in a way that makes it possible to link his works to contemporary artistic practice. We distributed dozens of offset prints of the painting The Red Sea from the artist’s estate among contemporary artists. These artists were asked to create something out of and influenced by the painting. They were given no limitations regarding size, technique or artistic language. The only two conditions were that the work would be done specifically for the project and that it would be possible to point to the source of influence. Almost all the works created have been included in the exhibition, which contains the work of 37 artists, 34 Israelis and three guests from abroad who created their works while they were at Ein Hod during the last several months.
Works by Raya Trinker: Glilor / The Red Sea
“Pairings” Exhibition – Janko-Dada Museum
4 PAIRS OF ARTISTS, 4 CURATORS
This new group of exhibitions might be viewed as an experiment conducted in the museum space: a pair of male or female artists who had never met before were invited to display their work side by side. These are not joint exhibitions or a series of solo exhibitions, but rather an attempt to bring together two different languages and create a dialogue between them by means of a curating process based on examination of the sources from which each artist draws inspiration. Four curators were invited to participate in the “experiment,” three from Israel and one from Turkey
Works by Raya Trinker: Single Blanket
Buthaina Abu-Melhem, Raya Trinker
Double Stitching Curator: Rina Genussov
Raya Trinker and Buthaina Abu-Melhem both work in what is considered a feminine medium: embroidery and sewing. Abu-Melhem presents two dresses in raw cloth made to look tattered and stained. The dresses are embroidered with lines and shapes and studded with pins, needles, and bits of embroidery from a traditional dress left to her by her grandmother. The rough stitching gives the impression of an expressive drawing or topographical map that is intersected by borderlines demarcated by pins and needles, conveying an intense sense of impermanence and pain. Trinker’s Single Blanket, a work she began a year after the death of her mother, is composed of twenty-eight panels on which the artist embroidered pages of her mother’s diary from 1934-1937, when she was a young girl growing up in Tel Aviv. Also made of raw cloth, it is printed with ECGs performed in the older woman’s final years. Drawing the printed letters meticulously, Trinker faithfully reproduces her mother’s descriptions of her personal experiences and political events in the period before the birth of the State of Israel. The conjunction between the two works raises issues relating to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, while at the same time expressing universal human values.
“What you did last summer”
Hansen House. Jerusalem / Israel.
Artists creating as a reflection to the 2014 summer fighting in Israel. Event organized by “Erev Rav”.
On summer 2014 Israel was attacked by missiles and was attacking back at the Gaza Strip. During the 90 days of attacks few violent accidents burst around the country between Jews and Arabs. In reaction some artists decided to protest, some kept silent, some created art works etc.,
Two months later artists were given floor to introduce works done during and right after this summer. Among them I was invited to show my work: ‘Sweet Dreams, my baby‘.
Soldiers of / for life
The art gallery at the memorial center in Tivon / Israel
‘Boring‘* (installation)was the piece I had on this exhibition .The exhibition meant to deal with the relations between art and army .Having had this works by the five artists on display in a memorial center for bereaved families of soldiers who live in Tivon, was a true challenge since the art projects were also questioning the idea of lose of life in the context of army service,etc.,which is an issue that the Israeli society deal with for some time .It took a lot of courage from the curator and management of this center to share this works with their public.
News
December, 2015
Signals | Municipal Gallery, Rehovot / Israel
July, 2015
Homage to the Red Sea | Yanko-Dada Museum
October, 2014
What you did last summer | Hansen House, Jerusalem / Israel
September, 2014
PAIRINGS exhibition | Janko-Dada Museum
April, 2013
Soldiers of/for Life | The art gallery at the memorial center in Tivon / Israel
July, 2010
End of the year exhibition. The Artists’ House | Tel Aviv / Israel