Pardes

Amnon Wolman, Nevet Yitzhak, Ira Eduardovna, Nadav Assor
09-11/2014 | Koffler Center for the arts, Toronto, Canada
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Pardes, Exhibition View. Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Amnon Wolman, SoundBook (2014), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Amnon Wolman, SoundTallit (2014), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Nadav Assor, Ophan (2014), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Nadav Assor, Ophan (2014), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Pardes. Exhibition View, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Pardes. Exhibition View. Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Nevet Yitzhak, A Great Joy Tonight (2009), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Ira Eduardovna, A Thousand Years (2014), at Pardes, Koffler Gallery, 2014. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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In a conversation with sound artist and composer Amnon Wolman, he described his memory of avocado kernels taking root in flower pots his mother used to place on the kitchen window. For Wolman and his sister, this became a poetic representation of nomads who carry their roots along on their voyage. This beautiful image accompanied me throughout the process of developing PARDES for the Koffler Gallery, while working with Wolman and three other Israeli multimedia artists – Nevet Yitzhak, Ira Eduardovna and Nadav Assor. It is a fitting metaphor that relates to the initial motivation behind this project, of examining our personal connections with essential ideas at the root of our identity.

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