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Indepth Arts News:
"Voice, Image, Gesture: Selections from the Collection 1945-2000"
2001-03-25 until 2001-08-05
Jewish Museum
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Voice, image, gesture. These terms represent three areas of The Jewish Museum's
collection-broadcast media, fine arts, and ceremonial objects. Created since1945, the works
in this exhibition reflect a diversity of perspectives on Jewish history and contemporary
culture.
Within the multiplicity of The Jewish Museum's collection stirs the conviction that Jewish
history is not a singular history. Traditional Jewish teaching is informed by the practice of
midrash-the interpretation of law and contemporary life. This exhibition mirrors the
complex nature of Jewish identity, wherein the tradition of interpretation is reinscribed in
the act of remembering, questioning, and reconstituting the shared and subjective contexts
that commemorate and explicate the past.
These works and objects confront history, visualize the spaces of memory, question the
boundaries between abstraction and representation, and enact ritual. Artists position
themselves, either directly or indirectly, within historical and contemporary narratives, as
they shape into discourses the fragments of memory, myth, and story.
IMAGE:
Harriete Estel Berman
(American, b. 1952)
Tzedakah (alms container)
San Mateo, California, 199
Pre-printed steel with aluminum rivets;
installation of 50 envelopes
Each envelope: 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 1/2;
entire installation: 42 x 35 x 1/2
The Jewish Museum, New York: Museum
purchase;
Judaica Endowment Acquisitions Fund
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