Nachshon Gallery

Adi Weizmann Aharoni - Crossroads

April 16^th – May 21^st 2005

“Crossroads” installation was created for Nachshon Gallery.

This installation represents two working areas – the Studio and the Home, and the wonder of them possibly meeting up. 

The objects represent the two worlds. 

Running the width of the space are clothesline, hanging closely together are white infant clothing, under the clothing on the floor are white stains.

On the wall – a series of drawings of a figure depicting the pregnancy process and birth.

On the floor a wooden beach chair is installed, with pen drawings and sewed paper on the frame.

The Crossroads – are the meeting points between the elements that collide and that intertwine, between the united and the disconnected, and between the substances. This is the point in which the line becomes a patch of color, where the patch is either exposing or hiding something beneath.

As in life, intertwine and collide, unite and disconnect, the clothes line, where the white infant clothing are hanging closely together, we see the white stain on the floor beneath, as if it dripped from the clothes leaving a pale mark.

Along the wall – a drawing of a figure that changes its shape as wandering along the known time scale of pregnancy and birth.

The play of light and shadow acts as the existing motif in this installation, which seldom receives a physical dimension. Thus, the beach chair, with the pen drawing on its wooden frame documents a figure shadow that has been, sat and now gone.

The movement and transition between mediums and materials in the installation: the clothes, which create a stain; the clothesline creates a tension, while dividing the space.

The drawing goes from the object to the wall and to the floor, appearing in different ways and creating repetition and movement.

The thin, minimalist line marks a body contour that seems to disappear into the wall, and the wall turns to be the body that will make it disappear. The wall may be seen as a body, a type of platform on which experiments of contractions and expansions are made on as if there is no stable situation.

And so these two very different environments meet: home and studio, and seem that these two opposite worlds enrich each other as in my life and in the gallery space as well.