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Heddy Abramowitz
Hate Will Not Win
, 2012
Digital color photograph
16”
x 20”
Graffiti markings – the quickly spray-painted
images from templates or scrawled by hand –
speak to basic sexual assumptions about
Judaism, gender tensions, and sexuality
identity. These images document the social
pulse of Jerusalem, where the secular and
fervent believers share a city but are
increasingly polarized.
Andi Arnovitz
4%
of Us
, 2011
Paper, clay, found objects
3”
x 23” x 13”
Arnovitz’s works reflect tensions that exist between
biology, religion, and politics. Genesis commanded us
to “be fruitful and multiply;” thus, childbearing has been
an important part of Jewish communal life. A willingness
and ability to bear children has become for many the true
definition of femininity and personal worth. 4% of women
ovulate earlier than the proscribed two weeks of total
male/female separation and are therefore unable to
conceive children. The tiny clay fetuses represent unborn
children. The artist seeks change in
halakhic
rule.
