Untitled, 2021

The artwork pledge

• GENDER EQUALITY
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Borders
• Collective Memory
• Dance
• Edgar Degas
• Fiction
• Human Body
• Israel
• Merce Cunningham
• Middle East
• Music
• Performance Art
• Photography
• Power Structure
• Social
• Tel Aviv
• Theater
• Urban
• Video
• Video Art
• Violence
• William Shakespeare

About this artwork

The drawing depicts the profile of a figure in contemplative posture while holding a flower bouquet and a vase. The dark vase echoes the dark color on the figure’s arm. Oil pastel is used here, which Michal Helfman labels as a “rebellious” medium. One can also recall the term “flower power”, which used to describe the passive, peaceful resistance movement in the late 1960s, rooted in the opposition against the Vietnam War. The flower came to be an iconic symbol of non-violence and harmony.

Israeli multi-media artist Michal Helfman revisits history and boundaries, such as frontiers, through sculpture, architecture, video and drawing.

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