07.09-
02.10.
2019
visual : Luc Choquer
visual : InsightDProject
Iris Elhanani
The International Artist Museum
THE VEIL
BEYOND
Round table moderated by journalist and essayist Ariane Bonzon, specialist of the Turkey.
In presence of the photographer Luc Choquer , Sedef Ecer franco-turc writer & stage director, Jean Rouaud writer and Alain Mingam Photoreporter & curator.
ROUND TABLE
Wednesday 18TH of September 7:30PM
Around Luc Choquer’s photobook - Women of Istanbul
PARTNERS OF THE EXHIBITION :
PARTNERS OF MÉMOIRE DE L'AVENIR - ARTS AND SOCIETY
PARIS
Amir Eshel / Anat Shilo / Asma Elbadawi / Avi Sperber / Ayala Serfaty / Batool Showghi / Carmit Wiezman / Celine b. la Terreur / Daphna Margolin / Doni silver Simons / Eitan Pimental / Evan Bellin / Ewelina Koszykowsky / Fatma Shanan / Gaya Strauss / Gila Stein / Hadass Shlagman / Hagit Ben Ami / Havatzelet Harmati / Ivo Bisignano / Jerry Shai Sarig / Joya Halper / Joyce Estaves / Keren Hanan / Leni Dothan / Lorenna Grant / Mashuko Kasoe / Melinda Smith Altshuler / Michal Nahmany / Michelle Littauer Gavrielov / naakita feldman-kiss / Nitza Genosar / Niva Madenbliet / Noa Yekutieli / Norma Drimmer / Norma MacDonald /Odelia Elhanani / Ora Goldenberg / Orit Akta Hildesheim / Orit Bertini Shavit / Rachel Gruft Goren / Randy Matushevitz / Raia Saed / Revital Arbel / Rivka Levi / Ruchama Sandler / Samah Shihadi / Sharyn Egan / Shlomo Emanuel / Sigalit Landau / Sima Ariam / Suilen Higashino / Tami Barlev / The Handkerchief Project / Varda Rotem / Vivi Gan Mor.
© Anat Shilo
International artistic project - Marker XI
HiStories, Cultures and veils
Beyond the Veil is an international art project that originally brings together the work of 100 women; visual artists, photographers, writers, poets and activists from five continents. Since its presentation in Venice in June 2019, the project has been expanded with 6 male artists.
From September 6th to October 2nd, 2019, Memory of the Future - Arts and Society presents 57 selected works in partnership with The International Artists Museum.
The project was born from a conversation with young women leader from the Arab world, in Jordan, at the YaLa Young Leaders Conference. YaLa is a mass peace movement bringing together young women and men from the Middle East working together to create and implement a new regional vision of freedom, equality and peace.
Iris Elhanani, an Israeli exhibition curator and a speaker at the conference, was inspired by this symposium and opened a call to to women, veiled or not, on an international level, in collaboration with the Israeli Curtor Doron Polak (president and founder of the Artists Museum in Givatayim) and have put together a global project titled Beyond the Veil | Marker XI
The use of the veil has been dated since Ancient times and has been appropriated differently, depending on the culture and or the location of certain societies. The veil is also a social, as an identical and/or cultural marker. However, the apprehension of the veil and its use is not limited to its history nor to its pragmatic or to its symbolic use.
The debates and reflections concerning the veil are complex and sensitive, and can be controversial. In some contexts, it turns out to be a tool of patriarchal oppression, in others, it expresses a will to claim self or social/cultural identity in public spheres, or simply been used for aesthetical or practical reason.
Within multicultural societies the presence of a veil as other cultural and identities accessorises can evoke, at times, hostility from the large majority towards a social minorities,
Code of practice and regulation around the use of the veil, at different parts of the world; allow raising the questions concerning the degree of freedom of the women; their ability to use their free will and to make choices by and for her, in all conscience, without being forced by any culture or system.
However the veil is not only a physical veil, but can be also a non-materialistic form of repression and criticism on women ways of behaving or wearing in social or private contexts. Therefore, Depending on the circumstance, one must not to exclude, stigmatize or condemn women because they would have chosen to wear a veil or not, etc., but accept the confrontation within difference, as with the otherness and within plural communities and their diversities.
Each “veil” is different. It is necessary to link and de-compartmentalize the struggles against sexism, racism, discrimination.
Recently, the debate on gender equality has intensified at the international level. It has given rise to an unprecedented awareness, inviting us to position ourselves unambiguously against the compulsory and oppressive nature of an injunction to promote the right of all women to freely dispose of her body, her choices and her life.
The enemy is not the veil - it is the tree that hides the forest - but a whole complex system of patriarchal domination, which has been going on for centuries, and which can take on very different faces according to the middle and the time.
The works presented in this exhibition all bring personal, sensitive and reflective points of views to these issues . They question, beyond the veil, the notions of freedom and equality in the world, with the aim of opening up to a better understanding and mutual respect of all cultural identities.
The first presentation of this exhibition was held at the Artists Museum in Tel Aviv in 2018. It is currently in Venice until September 2019 for the Biennale. It is welcome at Mémoire de l'Avenir in Paris from September 7th to October 2nd and will continue its road at the Artists Museum in Poland and in the Fusion Art Museum in New York.
CURATORS : I. Elhanani, D. Polak, M. Berriet, MC. Berdaguer, J.Yahouda
THE VEIL
BEYOND
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