Sarit Shapira

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Sarit Shapira is an associate curator at Magasin 3. This is her first own exhibition for the institution and a Swedish audience. Sarit Shapira lives in Tel Aviv and bases her activities on her region of operation, the Middle East. At Magasin 3 she presents six oeuvres that are linked to the region. These artists employ different approaches, for instance using national symbols such as the camel and the olive tree, making models of mythically charged buildings, or letting the landscape be a stage for enacting scenes from art history.

The featured artists are currently or have been active in Israeli or Arabic areas. Every week we get fresh news from these areas, a rapid flow of reports about a violent everyday life. Sarit Shapira highlights these artists’ ability to transform the situation in the region into something imaginary, abstract, with artistic and contemporary qualities. She combines the legendary filmmaker David Perlov’s (1952-2002) snapshots with works by young and promising artists, such as Raeda Saadeh. Several of the participating artists do not display an obvious political stance in their work – an avoidance that could be interpreted as a political standpoint in itself. The title refers to this approach, which is also what links the artists to each other.

Sarit Shapira is a leading authority on contemporary art in the Middle East. She lectures in art theory at the Bezalel Art Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem/Tel Aviv, and is a freelance curator at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and other institutions. Sarit Shapira has written books about the artists Raffi Lavie and Avner Ben-Gal among others and articles for magazines such as October and ArtForum.

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