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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
58TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION

IREL AND
The Shrinking Universe

EVA ROTHSCHILD: KOSMOS, Commissioner: Culture Ireland.
INSTALLATION VIEW, AUSTRALIAN Curator: Mary Cremin.
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY Exhibitor: Eva Rothschild.
ART, MELBOURNE, 2018. Venue: Arsenale
PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDREW CURTIS.

Eva Rothschild will create a wholly sculptural exhibition for
the Irish Pavilion, located in the Arsenale. Through its direct
material presence, the work will engage with current political
and environmental concerns arising from our on-going climate of
global uncertainty.
Employing a diverse range of materials and sculptural formats,
Eva Rothschild will construct an immersive environment that
allows the public to be both viewer and participant. Rothschild’s
exhibition will create a socially sculptural space within the Irish
Pavilion, allowing for contemplation of the material legacy of
both present and past civilizations.
One of the leading sculptors of her generation, Eva Rothschild’s
work demonstrates a great awareness of the modernist
tradition while maintaining its own distinctive sculptural
language. Her works also engage with signifier and objects
from her surrounding urban environment, and the eternal
forms of geometry and classicism. Her sense of materials,
scale, monumentality, color and line reflect a refined aesthetic
sensibility that redeploys and subverts familiar sculptural
formats.(excerpt)

ISRAEL
Field Hospital X
FIELD HOSPITAL X Commissioner: Michael Gov, Arad Turgeman.
(FHX), AYA BEN RON, Curator: Avi Lubin.
‘CARE-CHAIR’, 2019 Exhibitor: Aya Ben Ron.
PH. NOA YAFE
Venue: Giardini

Field Hospital X (FHX) is a new, mobile, international institution,
established by artist Aya Ben Ron. It is a unique organization
that is committed to researching the way art can react and act
in the face of social ills and corrupt values in society. Learning
from the structure and practice of hospitals, health maintenance
organizations and healing resorts, FHX provides a space in which
silenced voices can be heard and social injustices can be seen.
FHX has been conceived with the intention to create a safe space to
screen No Body, a video by Aya Ben Ron about abuse in the family
that tells her story after many years of silence. Ben Ron wanted to
create a place where people would see and listen to her story, as
well as to other stories that need to be heard.
When visitors enter FHX they take a queue number and wait in the
Reception Area to be called. While waiting they watch the FHX TV
Program - a video work by Ben Ron that gives information about the
hospital’s ideology, its Care-Areas and Care-Kits.
Once their number is called, visitors continue to the Care-Areas and
FHX facilities: Safe-Units in which they can learn how to produce
a Self-Contained Shout; and Care-Chairs - devices that consist
of a personal screen and headphones, to create the necessary
conditions for personal viewing of FHX Care-Kits. (excerpt)

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