“Gathering the Narrative for Myself” - Naama Ben-Moshe – Solo Exhibition, Grand opening: Thursday, 5.3.2025 at 18:30 at Souratzky Central Library, Tel Aviv University, Curator: Rachel Ziv
All her life, Naama Ben-Moshe engaged in applied art through the design of homes and offices. As a complement to the branding of the apartments, she painted atmospheric paintings. This was not significant painting; it was on the border of decoration, of matching colors to the space that was built. When she turned to studies for a master’s degree in interdisciplinary art at Tel Aviv University, and even graduated as a Dean’s Honors student, a window into the philosophy of art opened before her, and she confronts the new, significant lines in a series that dismantle the subject into a narrative of fragments.
The texture of the black-and-white series begins with a scribble made during a telephone conversation, which is a psycho-motor movement that comes from the brain unconsciously. That is, it is automatism, characteristic of Surrealism, which flows from the subconscious without control, and as it progresses, it takes on forms and meanings, which she completes into the random visual appearance. (She moved to color following the recommendation of Yoram Rozov, who told her that she had exhausted black/white.)
The color series—The Earth Line, The Horizon Line, The Mood Line, The Ingathering of Exiles Line, The Game of Thrones Line, and also the current-affairs paintings—are educated and planned, emerging from aesthetic judgment (the manner of perception of the object), which can be formalistic, in relating to form above the surface, or beneath the surface, when speaking of depth qualities and emotion.
The series corresponds with the doctrine of Aristotle, which holds that: “There is not a separate world of ideas and a separate material world—the idea (form) is embedded within the matter.” He focuses on the reality of forms, found within the elements in our universal world with all its details, that are perceived as possibilities regarding the way human thoughts, emotions, and actions are characterized, that is, as an aesthetic presentation of the principles governing human life. Insight is the first action that directs the line into a series of fragments that repeat themselves. Each fragment is the essence of the whole. At every point, one can grasp the whole.
Closing: 29.3.2026
Exhibition visiting hours: Sunday–Thursday: 08:30–21:00, Friday: 08:30–12:30
