Lihie Gendler Talmor, winner of the Grand Prix of the 2024 International Print Triennial in Kraków, in her solo exhibition, reaches for her series The Water Falls Outside of the War created a quarter of a century ago. A series linking her family roots to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict provides an excellent introduction to her work, in which personal issues are constantly intertwined with the universal topics. The artist carefully observes the similarities between the mechanisms at work in nature and the processes occurring in the human-made reality – these themes are evident in her 2011 series Makom, in which space, which is the abode of God, merges with the human-made architecture. The link between the disruption of nature and contemporary political upheaval is reflected in Traces, her most recent work, where the author refers to the forced displacement that affected her and the residents of her kibbutz in 2023. Their juxtaposition with the Being-Refuge /Serrefugio series, which evokes the current state of the biblical cities of refuge located in present-day Israel and Palestine, symbolically links the author’s experiences with similar dramas of people all over the world.
The exhibition opens the set of presentations Winners in Focus 2025 – in the following months we will see works by Michał Pietrzak and Ewa Jaworska.
Exhibion is open: Mon–Fri 10am–3:30pm. Admission free
