12. 27.2018 | 26.1. 2019

The exhibition "The blue will shine white" is part of a broad project in which the artist traces how the Zionist homeland was built. She has rewoven her memories of her childhood home, validating them vis à vis archival findings. Tamar Nissim contemplates the association between the nuclear family and nation-building, the different nationalities of the immigrants to Israel who became ethnic communities, illuminating those who shared in paving the way for the people to become a state and shedding light on their role. The exhibition is based on archival research comprising collections of texts from specific historical periods, press clippings, contemporary articles, interviews with women who grew up in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate, visits to museums, marketplaces, household objects, and cleansing materials. The artworks embody an intergenerational transfer among women – women who lived in Mandatory Palestine-Eretz Israel in general, and the women of Nissim’s family in particular. The crossmatching stories color hygienic anxiety with national anxiety and vice versa.

Curator: Gili Zaidman