Composite Materials

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

In recent decades, the term “hybrid” has become a popular concept in the fields of art and design.
The ongoing interest in the term and the perception inherent in it sanctifies the conceptual ideal of deconstructing hermetic conceptions that seperates the world into singular objects. Hybrids propose imaginary, senseless connections on the one hand, while on the other connects adjacent interfaces to innovate – between the visual, material, technological, or conceptual.

Hybridity allows us to deviate ourselves from rational logic towards unexpected directions, thus generating surprising possibilities which succeed to propose original links/relationships and to challenge thought conventions, specifically through the visual plane.

The department of Ceramics and Glass at Bezalel Academy demands from its students and faculty uncompromising professionalism and a deep understanding of their field of knowledge. In face of this ongoing demand for in depth specialization, we seek to shake the field and challenge it via encounters with different mediums, disciplines, and materials in a way that will allow us to rethink and refrain from becoming fixed on the familiar. Included in this exhibition are a number of works from within the department created by those who find interest in the seam between the identified and the unknown, and connect different worlds in a way that gives birth to a new reality.

Curator: Eran Erlich
Participants: Hila Lulu Lin Farah Kufer Birim, Noa fein, Sasha Serber, Lena Dubinsky, Amit Zoran, Mika Orstav, Olya Brener, Moran lee Yakir, Lisbeth Biger, Assaf Cohen