Women Inspired by Text
''The idea behind this exhibition, in the Social Gallery, is to examine how women artists create their works of art inspired by Jewish text. While searching for artists that could participate in the show, I was looking for different approaches to the text.
Some of the artists create their works through a direct use of the text: their art is physically writing the text, in traditional, modern or personal calligraphy, creative forming and re-forming of the Hebrew letters.
Other artists relate to the text in a more indirect fashion, through interpretive reading of the text, then illustrating it on paper or on canvas, creating figurative or abstract works.
The variety and the versatility of the works of art reflect the extent to which the Hebrew text is a source of Inspiration.
I hope that this exhibition will become a source of inspiration for further interpretative reading of texts, an inspiration to look deeper, and an inspiration for new creativity''.
Nurit Sirkis Bank
Curator
The Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art
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