Garage Gallery

Garage Gallery project took place in July 2016 as

part of my graduation project from Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem

Alina Yavtushenko - curator, art school graduator

Assa Bigger - producer, art consultant
Salman Mordi - garage owner, handyman

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 Inspiration
The idea of taking the Garage as the location for
my final project fell apart with the support of
Assa Bigger, the entrepreneur and the friend of
the my husband Salman Mordi, the garage owner.
Assa suggested to organise events in the garage
and to invite people to get there. To his opinion,
this place possessed the special atmosphere and
coolness, besides the fact that a lot of clients
from around Israel bring their off-road cars to
be fixed there.

I loved the idea of involving people and

participants into my final project. The decision
was to create the art space as the subject of my
work and to display it as projection on the wall.
For this reason I had to collaborate with other
artists inviting them to build up the exposition
for the garage that would have been projected
into the walls of Bezalel art academy.

Relocating the final project from the academy

into a brutal and true-to-life workshop sounded
as a bold and risky concept. At the same time I
was ambitious and motivated to face it as the
real job that I would be able to deal with
further after graduation.

Culinary event in the Garage 1/12/2015

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 Curatorial agenda

Hiring the artists was challenging as I was

looking for young artists, art school graduates
of different origins to exhibit in the garage and
to approach the topic - The Road Life.

This title reflected the location matter - the

car repair workshop; as well as addressed the way
the project was held: simultaneously in two
places.
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Another important issue was the physical
location of the garage in Tira, which is arabic-
israeli town in the central district of Israel.
Garage in Tira is somewhat speaking by itself
in context of israeli society, associating with
common beliefs about arabic towns inside Israeli
border.

Back side of the exhibition catalog, showing on map

the route from exposition in Jerusalem to garage in
Tira
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 Curatorial agenda

Road Life was once a romantic symbol of hippies

lifestyle. But nowadays this term would rather
have a negative connotation of the time wasted on
getting from point A to point B.

Since traffic is the essential issue for

contemporary cities, it is much more fair to count
on technology and to transit any sort of data in
seconds instead of physically moving from place
to place.

Road life Alina Yavtushenko 2016

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 Artists in garage
Renat Goldberger
Shrimp wheel,ceramics
The subjects in Rinats works are
inspired by natural entities,
such as human and animal body
parts, as well as day to day
objects. I question in my works
the place that bodies and
objects have in our lives and how
the matter around us reflects on
our personalities. Such body
parts and objects are often
isolated, emphasized or
exaggerated, often to an extent
of a fetish or perversion.
Aysha E Arar
video 2mins,
wallpaper digital print
about the overload of goods in
Ayshas work touches upon the
problem of self-manifestation
being the muslim woman
integrated in israeli society.
She created the emotional video
in which she is singing the hymns
of israel with hew mouth cropped
out from the frame.
In addition to this she covered
the wall of the garage with
monochromic pattern composed
from the shaded image of her ID
card, which created a visual
effect open to variety of
interpretations.
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Egor Levin
Trip to Mars
ready made, installation
Egor is a the street artist and
musician, that collects things
from the road. His vivid
installation aroused questions
terms of consumerism while
giving the hint that obsession
to things is close t obsession to
garbage. Dont bother
concealing your thievery
celebrate it if you feel like it.
In any case, always remember
what Jean-Luc Godard said: Its
not where you take things from
its where you take them to.
 Artists in garage
Jafra Abu Zoulouf Anton Reva Ali Al Deek Alina Yavtushenko
9 x digital prints The Secret of Us Car Embroidery video installation
video collages, 9 mins textile, hand-crafted
Jafra shows the grid of 9
pictures of olive trees, The car embroidery
includes pillows, seat and
that look differently but dashboard covers crafted
they are only few plants with traditional beduin
pattern.
shot in studio. Raised in His work is associated
the druize town, Jafra with lou-tech hand labor
takes the olive tree as Anton is the truly virtual of small ethnic groups like
icon of the Land that participator, that has palestinian bedouins that
never physically made his have to constantly
people of several cultures The video is composed from
way to the garage. For the replicate and promote
have to share. The fact exhibition we prepared the still image zoomed in and
their unique identical
that she actually bought collage of shortages left signs to survive within the scrolled and then mapped
the baby trees from Ikea from virtual photo globalised market. As the into the back car window.
emphasises the sessions as he photograph resident of Ramallah city, The installation intends
pointlessness of most of ed portraits through Ali would not be manage to to discover the rabbits
virtual ways of visit the exhibition
conflicts for territory. communication. hole in comprehension of
personally.
virtuality, trying to catch
up the mind as it dwells
between real and virtual,
and to define the sensitive
outcome from living in the
transit zone.

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Catalogue View

To flip through the catalogue https://youtu.be/oTCC6EvWGcw

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 Bezalel Exposition
While the body of work is presented in the
garage and consists of installations of 7 artists,
the face of the project is its projection indoors
of Bezalel academy.

The exposition in the academy is the live

translation from the garage security cameras.
As a matter of fact the exposition visitors are
offered to watch the exhibition in garage
thought the grid of security cameras and through
the exhibition catalogue. Installation view,
Bezalel academy,
The topic of Surveillance is very sharp in
contemporary society, especially in Israel. Jerusalem 07/2016

The grid of CCTV monitoring is a common thing

that draws a notice everyday at the entrance to
any building as well as in the news or in social
media.
In addition to this the video recording from
CCTV cameras associates with watching
committed crimes.

Within my Bezalel exposition I decided to

introduce the real person who performs the
process of monitoring symbolising the unknown
watcher behind Surveillance cameras.

As it comes by expectation he was quickly Georgian sculptor George Tsuladze

occupied by his own business.
performing watchman

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 Quote

In the permanent so-called war on terrorism

one may ask how extensively the camera will
oppress its users, not only by myriad images of
destruction throughout the world to which we
are immediately privy but also by a continuous
and increasingly omnipresent surveillance.

Fred Ritchin After Photography p. 168

CCTV alongside TV in the private house

Alina Yavtushenko 2016

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 Artist statement

There are two expositions of one project, which

are connected through the network and one of
them refers to another. The indirect
correlation between these two parts of one
thing is the major concern of my work:
when looking for the real thing does it matters
whats happening apart from what is transferred
and uploaded?

While the original artworks made by artists are

located in the garage, the main conceptual part
of the project is in the different place, within
the white walls of the academy. The digital
projection that is presented to wider audience
shares the concept, selling the idea of real
exhibition in the garage without the Garage exhibition as seen through grid of 6 CCTV cameras
possibility to touch, look into the detail or to
get emotional impact.

The split between the body of work and its face

should provoke discussion about principal
aspects of the art practice today, as the
original is no longer a big deal and the data
transfer rate lets you know most of things
without leaving the screen of the computer.

Where is the context of the art discourse now?

What is the criteria for exhibiting art if there
are so many new emerging ways to show off and to
assemble. Finally what is the lifetime of the
artwork and how does it meet its target
audience?
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 Feedback

The project was selected among other graduation projects by
the independent Bezalel committee for the sustainability and
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community awareness.
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Honorable mention of the project in the article by Galia

Yahav in Haaretz newspaper from 19/07/16

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 Feedback

The exhibition in the garage drew attention by

local community. We were invited to speak about
the project to the studio of arabic TV Channel
Panet".

A year after Tira municipality supported the

large exhibition where the artists from Tira,
Raanana and Taibe participated.

The Shrimp Wheel created by Renat Goldberger for

garage exhibition presented at the Fresh Paint art fair 2017

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 Links

https://www.facebook.com/musahgallery/ - further information and pics

on the Facebook page

https://www.instagram.com/musahgallery/ Instagram of the project

www.rinatgoldberger.com Rinat Goldberger website

www.instagram.com/nadada/ Anton Reva instagram

alinadriz.com Alina Yavtushenko website

georgetsuladze.com Georgian sculptor George Tsuladze website

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19.07.2016

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