Michal Ronnen Safdie "Sunday Tuesday Thursday"
Andrea Meislin Gallery
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Andrea Meislin Gallery presents an exhibition of new photographs by Michal Ronnen Safdie. This will be the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Ronnen Safdie's new body of work, "Sunday Tuesday Thursday", portrays Orthodox women and children at a beach in Israel, north of Tel Aviv. The title of the exhibition refers to the days in which this particular beach is open to use by Orthodox women – on the other days it is exclusively male territory. A portrait emerges through Ronnen Safdie's photographic inquiry of a culture that most viewers have never seen before. Ronnen Safdie is able to use her access to this world to capture the touching and surprising individual moments occurring within the larger whole.
Sunday Tuesday Thursday will also include a catalogue with an essay by noted scholar, critic and Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt. In his writing, Greenblatt remarks on the "overwhelming femaleness" of the photographs that initially catch the viewer's eye. Greenblatt goes on to say that, "we seem to look down, as if we were one of the lifeguards, on hundreds of women and children spilling across the entire space and occupying almost every available inch of sand and water." Ronnen Safdie provides a fascinating look into this previously unexplored territory and, at a moment when women's place in society has become an explosive issue in Israel, the exhibition is particularly timely.
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Schedule
from March 01, 2012 to April 21, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-01 from 18:00 to 20:00