“If I could store lightnings in jars, I’d give them to sick fireflies to light their way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this quotation by an anonymous Internet poet, captures the spirit of\n the exhibition: the ability to observe a small collection, at times \nesoteric or eclectic, and gain a wealth of insights that arise from that\n concentrated multiplicity. The range of gazes and angles emerging from \nthe random collections featured in the exhibition allows observation of \ncommon spheres of life, thereby exposing something about the modes of \nhierarchy-making and evaluation structuring our gaze. Just as a sick \nfirefly may regain its glow, so a captive gaze, automatic judgment, or a\n prejudice may dissolve as it is exposed to the diverse possibilities \nembodied in multiplicity.
\nCollections, clusters, corpuses usually comprise a group of objects of \none kind: a bunch of lightnings, a box of spinning tops, a notebook of \ndreams. The clusters in the exhibition, however, do not inquire about \ncollecting as such; rather, they are interested in the outlooks \nresulting from their juxtaposed display and the stratified, multiple \ngaze they generate.
\nCollections are not archives. They do not seek exclusivity, or present \nthemselves as the voice of truth. They are not authoritative, but rather\n open and flexible. Some may be regarded as corpora\u2014a word which seeks a\n physical context (corpus) for a given cluster of things. The corpus \nabsorbs a measure of plasticity by virtue of its existence as a human \ntestimony, rather than a field of knowledge that claims objectivity.
\nThe small, unique collections showcased in the current exhibition \nintroduce a multiplicity of perspectives to the spectator which span \ndiverse fields: different perceptions of time in artworks suggest the \npossibility of an alternative temporality; processes of political \nimagination make it possible to contemplate alternative social \nstructures; shattering ethnographic display conventions challenges the \nattribution of fixed functions to given objects or ethnic groups; and \ndeviation from fixations of self-perception paves the way to imagine \npossible futures, whether private or collective.
\nThe exhibition also conceals lightning in a jar, hosting “G\/host”\u2014an \nexhibition within an exhibition which presents ghosts of Israeli \nartworks from the 1970s. MFA students at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and\n Design created tributary works inspired by works from the Levin \nCollection of Israeli Art, and various writers responded to these pieces\n with accompanying texts. The result is a presentation of a collection \nof Israeli art through its non-presentation
\nThe works are courtesy of the artists, unless indicated otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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