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Mother Tongue,
Museum of Art, Ein Harod & Hagar Gallery, Yafo, 2002-2003
Neta Harari Navon’s 18-panel painting reimagines the tradition of The Last Judgment, replacing divine judgment with human responsibility. Titled Judgment Day, it questions the notion of a single, predetermined verdict. In Judgment Day, Jesus is absent; there is no judge, no judgment, no one to decide who is righteous and who has sinned. Inspired by Renaissance masterpieces and mud festivals, the work explores the tension between imposed moral order and instinctive human freedom.
Mother Tongue,
Museum of Art, Ein Harod & Hagar Gallery, Yafo, 2002-2003
This series conceives of painting as testimony – a visual memorial. It depicts girls, adolescents, and young women lying alive, dead, or suspended between life and death, some based on police photographs from murder scenes. One of them is my mother. These paintings confront trauma through an intense realism in which painting becomes an act of witnessing, transforming proximity, vulnerability, and human suffering into a lasting visual testimony.
Mother Tongue
Museum of Art, Ein Harod & Hagar Gallery,
Yafo, 2002
Curator: Dr. Tal Ben Zvi
The exhibition Mother Tongue explores representations of Jewish Mizrahi identity in contemporary Israeli art, connecting biography and geography. The twenty-two participating artists, mostly Israeli-born, engage with their parents’ migration from Arab and Muslim countries as a significant element in shaping identity. Through the concept of mother tongue as a cultural and emotional space of memory, belonging, and heritage, the exhibition examines how artists negotiate self-representation while challenging perceptions of Mizrahiness as "Otherness" and presenting it as integral to Israeli culture.
Brunette | 2000-2001
Dynasty | 2000-2001
Mother Tongue,
Museum of Art, Ein Harod & Hagar Gallery, Yafo, 2002
Curator: Dr. Tal Ben Zvi
The exhibition Mother Tongue explores representations of Jewish Mizrahi identity in contemporary Israeli art, connecting biography and geography. The twenty-two participating artists, mostly Israeli-born, engage with their parents’ migration from Arab and Muslim countries as a significant element in shaping identity. Through the concept of mother tongue as a cultural and emotional space of memory, belonging, and heritage, the exhibition examines how artists negotiate self-representation while challenging perceptions of Mizrahiness as "Otherness" and presenting it as integral to Israeli culture.
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