Basement Sous-Sol
Crystal baskets
Sally Krystal's works are exceptional in the field of Israeli art and are characterized by an attitude of foreignness
And distance towards him. As the daughter of immigrants from France who immigrated to Israel as children, the French language and culture
Engraved in her soul. This has a clear expression in her work, starting in her world of images, in her work practices
Her, and bride in the names she gives to her works. A central and prominent feature of Crystal's works is
Blurring the accepted boundaries between art (art and craftsmanship - kraft). These are two close areas of art,
But in contemporary Israeli art they are perceived as opposites and even as threatening to each other.
The world of content in this exhibition and in many of its works is the "home" that quickly becomes "my home": the stranger, -
Threatening and repulsive. The works on display in the exhibition create a kind of homely, feminine environment, and yet
Morbid and ironic.
A refined duvet made of the treated fragment and a fragment pillow from which feathers erupt hints at
A nightmare rather than a sweet sleep (Bonne nuit "Good night"). The round "clock" whose digits
Embroidered skulls smile, and after all, skulls always smile, (La Dance des Demons "dance
The demons "), is cheerful and grave. Large canvases look like walls in which embroidered mold spreads, (Trop d'humidite" too much moisture "), and on the floor are flat rounded shapes, red as bloodstains
The smell of vinegar and rot rises from them. Residues and membranes of bacterial pulp formed in a domestic process
Traditional of fermentation and distillation of wine vinegar. (Vinaigre "vinegar").
A work that looks like a jewel that has become a cancerous, independent and organic creature whose branches branch off
And spreading into itself and on the wall, was inspired by the phenomenon of the "mycelium":
Underground, potentially infinite expansion. An underworld, dark and hidden from view, of webs
Mushrooms send in soil and organic matter, implied by the name of the exhibition "Basement". -
The stubborn, sophisticated and refined move that characterizes Sally's works challenges conventions, contrasts
And tensions in the field of art, cultural and social contrasts and tensions between art and non-dishes, between allowed -
To forbid, between high and low, between central and marginal, between beautiful and repulsive, between domestic and threatening, between feminine and masculine
, Between "here" and "there".
Cereal Brest
January 2022
* Thanks to Rumi Ann Kramberg
* The exhibition is supported by the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation