Miriam Cabessa// Performance

4 - 14.1.2012

Rothschild 12 art space, located at 12 Rothschild blvd, cordially invites you to the solo exhibition of the artist Miriam Cabessa. For Cabessa, born in 66, this will be her first exhibition in over eight years in israel. Cabessa, the first winner of the Gottesdiener Award and who has represented Israel in the 97' Venice biennial, moved to NY 12 years ago. In 2008 she exhibited her first performance and since then presented to the world an additional 11 hour-long performance that won critical acclaim from international art critiques.
Cabessa draws with house ware that has been expropriated from its original usage; iron, floor mop, trash cans and rags become a paintbrush in her hands. In her work at 12 Rothschild she will be painting with a mop and rag. Her work process has drawn curiosity and extensive research throughout the years and has emerged as the center of her work, while painting, as it turns out, has become a by-product
"What seems now as a forward movement will become as step backwards. What was a material- concrete will become a memory in time. The history of a life will become the history of writing a story....this creation is a life work, open and closed as one. On the one hand its decline has been predetermined and on the other it has sentenced to be ever ending. thus although its strict totality  it can be read in parts".
In her tactile work process, Cabessa produces a three dimensional object that is composed of her intertwined body, absorbed masonite and her work tools. This material- concrete constantly changes in short and fixed intervals. The fast pace work process is compounded of units, halting and pausing generating the image while moving systematically and infinitely. Her slow movement over the canvas produces an image and deletes it, as repeated multiple times.
The drawing, the final product, is the result of those halts and pauses. As the movement is required for the continuance of the halts, so is the drawing necessary as a reminder for the performance. Parts and shreds of the drawing are created and erased over and over by the artist not out of lack of satisfaction with the work but out of devotion to a sensual, flirtatious and performative act. For her the endpoint does not exist, rather emerges from the process after it has been digested, once satisfied. In Cabessa's case the trace of time and its movement on the masonite become the history of the operation which is the history of the drawings creation.
Cabessa has returned to Israel with the deep eagerness to share with the local audience her creative experience, the wallowing, the sensuality and the spreading in the material. Her exhibition will open with a performance which involves food. As she produces and devours the different images to the point of satiation, the audience will be invited to eat with their hands and wallow in the experience.

The event will be documented and displayed throughout the exhibition.

The exhibition will run between the 4.1- 14.1.012

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