Curator: Ariella Azoulai
Text: Gideon Ofrat
“In the Forest at Bograshov”
by: Dr. Gideon Ofrat
In the tension between nature and death Ariane Littman-Cohen fashions the course of her life and the course of our existence, Zionist-particular and general-cultural. We, who all came from the myth of the garden, the Garden of Eden, and end up in the garden of the cemetery, we who sought to renew our days of old as a nation in green gardens of wilderness conquest, garden-cities and the planting of forests: we are now placed in the artist’s ecologic-sylvan laboratory, there to observe/be observed under the metaphoric: magnifying glass….
