Artists Residence

Installation in
Bat-Yam Museum

Mirror room
with eggs 145x145x190cm

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Eggs, 2004
Installation-Photography-Painting

In her new exhibition Varda Carmeli brings together various means of expression she has used during her many years of artistic work. Painting and photography serve as two elements that engage in a dialogue and cooperate in uniting layers of artistic statement. The installation "Eggs" directs the viewer's gaze at the textures and shapes represented by this organic object; a significant statement develops from this critical gaze, both at the visual and at the image-cum-symbol levels.
The egg, an ancient symbol in diverse cultures, represents birth and recurrence and in these days of cloning and of artificial insemination a descent into the realm of the study of existence, too.
An egg is a regular item on the menu of the 9th Ab end-of-fast meal because an egg is "finished" in twenty-one days. "A chicken is innately twenty-one days"
(Bekhorot 5,a) i.e. the three weeks between 17th Tammuz and 9th Ab, a time to see which way the wind is blowing. The process as a place of creativity inwardly forges the fundamentals of implementation and portrayal both in the "work" of nature and in art work. The installation that Varda Carmeli constructs beckons us inside to linger, to wonder and to marvel.

Varda Genossar, Curator
The Artist's Residence, Herzliya