The Garden catalogue is being distributed by Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester’s International Center for Contemporary Visual Arts and Independent Film.
(ISBN- 978-1-907796-15-9)
Featuring echoes and fragments of a career spanning the best part of 20 years, The Garden is where Lahav’s practice currently resides.
Lahav explains that the garden has ‘an affinity to western mythology. [It is] a place of vision, of rebirth and death, a land of innocence and forbidden ways. It can be defined as idyllic and detached from the realities of the everyday. Yet it can also be considered as a place of confinement from knowledge and awareness.’
Alongside these distinct allusions to serenity and suppression, the garden also stirs notions of enlightenment which extend to the artist’s work. This is most notable in the use and application of materials in Taxidermy (2013), where multiple resin-injected poppy casts sit in contrast to the traditional bronze-cast Twilight’s Star (2009).
And in the kitsch aesthetic of the ceramic owl in The Visitor (2013), the vivid palette against an infinite black background offsets the typically minimal Scrimshaw (2013), a series of seven delicate drawings on fine white handkerchiefs.
Published to accompany the exhibition at Midland Arts Center, Birmingham. The Garden, essay by Doctor Paul Kilsby.
The Visitor – Box sets of 8 photographic images signed by the artist. Size 30×30 cm, edition of 60. Can be purchased directly from the artist.
Sleepless: The Art of Vered Lahav – (Paperback, 126 pages)
(ISBN 0 947642277)
Sleepless, monograph, essay by; Kate Pryor, Professor Carol Mavor and Professor Mark Durden. Published to accompany the exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
2006 Légendes.
Essay by Robert Clark.
Published by BCA Gallery, Bedford. (ISBN 0 9535274 4 1)
“…Lahav’s inclination towards paired-down subtleties of imagery is more evident in the present exhibition, Légendes, than ever before. To describe its constituent elements is to do little justice to the work’s potential mood or presence…”
2005 A Boy in A Woman’s Body.
Essay by Professor Mark Durden.
Published by mac, Birmingham (ISBN 0 9534477 66)
‘…Vered Lahav’s restrained and beautiful installations of photographs and objects set up and disturb binary distinctions. The title of this current exhibition immediately confuses classifications— ‘A boy in a woman’s body’— and keys into a whole set of questions, integral to her work, about the relationship between the physical, natural body and the social and cultural formations implicit in gender roles…’