Signs & Wonders (BY5)

Greenpoint Logistics Center

(year)
2025
(role)
Curator
(location)
BY5 Gallery
(participating artists)

Anat Golan

(image credits)

Shay Ben Efraim, Dor Kedmi

(about)
A site-specific solo exhibition for artist Anat Golan, examining Israeli national identity through her jewelry practice as spatial and political commentary, in response to the social and political crises that escalated following October 7, 2023.

Signs & Wonders is a solo exhibition for contemporary jewelry artist Anat Golan. The site-specific exhibition examines a fractured Israeli identity in response to the social and political crises that escalated following the events of October 7, 2023. Conceived as a spatial and political commentary, the exhibition uses jewelry as its central medium - small, intimate objects that carry the weight of national symbols.

National icons and architectural landmarks are deconstructed throughout the exhibition, challenging notions of collective memory and belonging at a moment when both have become particularly contested. The exhibition asks what remains when symbols come apart, and what new meanings might emerge when the familiar is broken open.

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(exhibition images)