The Kamel Mennour Gallery - one
of the most famous and well known galleries in Paris - is pleased to announce
its latest exhibition which choose to show the new work of Sigalit Landau, an
Israeli-born artist (1969) who lives and works in Tel Aviv. As you may know
Kamel Mennour is a French self-taught art dealer who became one of the best
because of his passion for art and his relation with the artists. Their
collaboration started a few years ago and its new exhibition is focused on
three videos and several photographs that basically show the viewer the work
done by the workers in the olive groves.
After a very warm welcoming,
Kamel explained us and told us about Sigalit work, her inspirations, her goals…
Palestinians workers are working on Israeli lands. The tone is set. It's difficult to pay
attention to the intensity of her work if we only look at the pictures. the
sizes of the videos are huge, monumentales and they reprensent the collect of
olives. At the first sight, it seems to be a very calm and peaceful day and
suddently the machines are setting off. All the serenity of the scene is
gone... We think about the duality between Israelis and Paslestinians. The
small farmers, who used to get in the harvest hardly and with their own hands,
are suddenly stumped by the arrival of those new machines. The first rom is
though : the duality between Israelis ans Palestinians ; the calm of
a harvest and the harsh sound of the machines, the sunlight that one can see
through the branchs and the sound of the olives falling down from the trees…
In the second room, she decided to show another side of
her work. She's one of those women who got the chance to become a mother later
in life. This room is dedicated to her maternity, to her fears, to her
apprehensions. Her sculptures, all made out of different types of marble, are
the perfect representations of pillows that help women to breast-feed their
babies.
Once again one can feel the contrast between the
unbearable noise of the other room and the serenity of this one. One wants to
talk in a low voice !!
Exhibition runs until July 25 and I really encourage all
of you that are in Paris to go to see this exhibition !
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