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'Zoom 2019 - Young Israeli Artists' 
Group Exhibition

"The second exhibition was organized by the Zoom project, whose mission is to provide a platform for outstanding young artists. the 22 artists featured in the current exhibition were chosen following the examination of approximately 1,000 artwork, presented over the past three years in the final exhibition of art schools throughout Israel; personal meeting with 80 graduates; and consultation with curators at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem"
(from the zoom 2019 catalog)

curators - Tal Bechler, Gilla Limon.
Steinhardt museum of natural history, tel aviv. 
13.5.2019-1.10.2019

1.Brown ombra mobqueen. Bent wood, Silk hair, 30/50/20 c"m. 2019.     2.Blond to purple mobqueen. Bent wood, Silk hair, 30/50/20 c"m. 2019.      3.Purple to yellow mobqueen. Bent wood, Silk hair, 30/50/20 c"m. 2019.     4.Blue, brown and yellow mobqueen. Bent wood, Silk hair, 30/50/20 c"m. 2018.

"shmuel goldstein is concerned with liminal states - transitional moments between poles such as conscious and unconscious, interior and exterior, male and female - which he used to raise social and cultural questions.
the term 'mobqueen' was coined by the artist by joining together two different concepts: 'mobius ring' and 'drag queen' ... this structure (the wooden mobius), with the additional of colorful hair pieces, is used by the artist as a methaphor for the existence of multiple ideentities - as in the case of the masculine-feminine expression of drag queens ... this work addresses the definition of identity in stereotypically gendered discourse as influenced by social constructions and norms" (from the zoom 2019 catalogue)

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