Events/Openings

Ruth Nemet "Young Samaritans"
Opening: Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 6–10 pm
Exhibition: 18 September – 18 October 2014

BQ is delighted to present "Young Samaritans", the first solo exhibition with the Israel artist Ruth Nemet (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Los Angeles).

Ruth Nemet mainly works with the media painting and photography. Though, her artworks are nothing like mere representations of objective reality. On the contrary, they seem to picture what usually remains invisible to the factual point of view and what is revealed only in fugacious moments of a dream or of precarious mystic experience. This is especially true for her new body of works, “Young Samaritans”; delicately and translucently painted oil portraits on nature photographs that represent details of water flowing over cliffs. The manifold vortices, streamlets, waves and sunlight reflexes that float over the rocks dissolve the photographic reproduction of nature into a formless, impressionist image of volatile speckles of colour, at the same time provoking involuntary images in the beholder. These suggestive photographs provide the background for tiny, mostly historical portraits of persons who emerge ghastly as ephemeral apparitions, like fossils or revenants from the past, evoking a hidden meaning that manifests in nature. The depicted persons – either politicians, scientists, or Samaritans, members of an ethnoreligious group who have preserved not only the religion and rites of the ancient Israelites (before the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BC) but also the old Hebrew alphabet – allude to an eternal mystical relationship between the subject, nature, society and history.

"Young Samaritans" will be on display until 18th of October 2014 at BQ’s showroom Upstairs in the rear building of the gallery.