Current Exhibit

TIME | הזמן

Curator: Udi Urman
Photographers: Elinor Carucci + Tal Shohat
Poems: Agi Mishol

Mar 10–May 16, 2025
Opening Reception: Tue, Mar 11, 6:30 pm

What is a family but a constellation of selves, shifting across the arc of time? How do we hold onto those we love as they change, as we change, and as the years inscribe their indelible marks upon us? Can art pierce the veil of memory and reveal the essence of these bonds—fragile, resilient, ever-evolving?

TIME assembles the work of three remarkable Israeli women artists—Elinor Carucci, Tal Shochat, and Agi Mishol—each offering a distinct meditation on the intimate fabric of family. Through photography and poetry, they excavate the hidden layers of domestic life, inviting us to reckon with our own reflections in the mirror of kinship.

Elinor Carucci's lens captures the unvarnished truth of family existence. Her photographs refuse the comfort of distance; they insist on presence. Here, nothing is withheld—ecstasy and grief, fury and tenderness intertwine without apology. Carucci's work demands that we bear witness to the raw choreography of love and pain that defines the human experience.

Tal Shochat, by contrast, constructs her familial narratives with the precision of a stage director. Her images are not found but built—each element meticulously arranged, every gesture deliberate. In Shochat's work, the familiar becomes theatrical, and the domestic transforms into myth. She compels us to ask: Is our family what it is, or what we craft it to be? Where does authenticity end and artifice begin?

Agi Mishol's poetry carves a different path, guiding us through the labyrinth of the heart. Her words are vessels of memory, carrying the weight of longing, betrayal, tenderness, and endurance. Each line pulses with the rhythms of a life lived among others, inviting us to trace our own emotional cartographies. Mishol reveals that family is not merely a structure but a field of forces—binding and repelling, nurturing and wounding, always in flux.

Together, these artists construct a profound dialogue on the nature of familial ties—the ways they shape us, the ways we shape them, and the ways they endure within us long after moments have passed. TIME is an invitation to contemplate our own inheritance of love and fracture, to see our families not as fixed entities but as dynamic constellations—ever shifting, ever becoming.
 

This exhibit was made possible thanks to special support from the Consulate General of Israel in New York. Gallery exhibits and programs are made possible with the generous support of The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the generosity of individual donors.