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In The Garden Of The Imagination
Sitting here, in my garden, on a warm still summer evening, stars brightly puncturing the night sky, I can hear the tawny owls calling to each other in the giant beech tree on the hill. The night air is heavy with the scent of jasmine. Every now and then, out of nowhere, there is a…
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Sleepless Tale
A Fairy Tale Evoked by the Art of Vered Lahav, written by Prof. Carol Mavor
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Légendes Exhibition
LÉGENDES ‘Between one being and another, there is a gulf, a discontinuity. This gulf exists, for instance, between you, listening to me, and me, speaking to you. We are attempting to communicate, but no communication between us can abolish our fundamental difference. If you die, it is not my death. You and I are discontinuous…
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A Boy in a Woman’s Body Exhibition
AWAKENING 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…
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The Children’s Room Exhibition
Home from Home Vered Lahav’s installation paradoxically explores ambivalence with great clarity. The objects and images making up this exhibition may be described readily enough: a few children’s toys cast into white wax; ten photographs of white-clad women, each identically cropped at the neck and the calf, five viewed from the front and five from…
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Interviews 2006
A set of short Q+As from the artist recorded during her solo show Légendes. Courtesy of BCA Gallery Bedford.