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Pure Observation
2023
Curator: Tali Kayam
Azrieli Gallery, Jerusalem

Two soap bubbles are seemingly hanging in mid-air representing a journey of exploration traveling through works of art and philosophical texts that are at the heart of artist LitalRubinstein's work. One is held by a wax copy of her eldest son Noah’s hand, and the other emerges from a seashell; fragile elements representing the passage of time. After visiting the laboratories of Hadassah Academic College, Lital visited the Israeli Museum and encountered the work of Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) 'What We All Lack' (1936) putting together a glassbubble with a porcelain pipe. The transparent bubble’s appearance echoed in the artist's mind the text of the Jewish German philosopher Walter Benjamin "Color from the point of view of a child" (which appears in "Metaphysics of Youth", Writings, Volume 1, Resling, 2009). The article refers to the rainbow colors revealed to a child looking at a soap bubble as a pure color experience and his unmediated connection to the imagination. A connection and perspective lost to us in adulthood. Following the Bernell-O-Scope device, Rubinstein directs us to focus our gaze on the glass bubbles to try and revisit that unique perspective that was our lot as children.

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