Between the Folds of Memory, Умм-эль-Фахм, до 30 сентября

Between the Folds of Memory
On the Works of Noga Shavit

Art and fairy tales have long been intertwined. Both seek to give form to what resists explanation: fear, memory, desire, pain, and hope. In the work of Noga Shavit, the fairy tale is not merely a source of inspiration but a living space through which reality is approached by way of imagination.

Shavit’s works move between photography, drawing, and material interventions of scratching, incision, and disruption. Photography serves as a point of departure. By altering its surface and exposing its layers, she creates works that seem to carry the traces of memory, time, and experience within their very materiality.

The forest, the wolf, the color red, and the recurring female figure function as charged symbols. Drawn from the realm of fairy tales, they become a language for exploring the human psyche. At the center stands Little Red Riding Hood — not as a child from a familiar story, but as a metaphorical figure carrying memories, traumas, and fears through a forest that is both physical and psychological.

Red, the dominant color in many works, embodies a duality: life and love, but also blood, wounds, and warning. Through it, Shavit creates a tension between beauty and threat, attraction and fear.

In these works, the fairy tale is not an escape from reality but a means of confronting it. Through images that remain open rather than offering fixed narratives, viewers are invited to encounter their own memories, fears, and dreams.

Shavit’s world is shaped by oppositions: paradise and hell, vulnerability and strength, destruction and renewal. From these tensions emerges a personal artistic language in which the wound is not only a sign of pain but also a point of reflection, understanding, and transformation.

Curator: Farid Abu Shakra