Upcoming Show – Opening Sunday 31 July 2022
RUTH WEIN: L’HADLICK NER SHEL SHABBAT (SABBATH CANDLE-LIGHTING)
The exhibition is open for viewing on Wednesdays and Sundays from 11am-3pm
From July 31 until August 24
Please join us for a special opening ceremony on Sunday July 31 at 3pm.
Ruth Wein’s mother made a profound death-bed request of her – to continue lighting the Shabbat candles. The request left her in awe at the sacred significance of lighting the Shabbat candles as well as the legacy her mother had left her. Ruth marvelled at the way this tradition had travelled from country to country, from generation to generation, from community to community, and was still relevant today. She was drawn to explore this further, and to this end, invited a selection of members from the local Jewish community, from varying backgrounds, to participate in sharing their experiences of the Shabbat candle-lighting tradition.
The resulting exhibition is Ruth’s representation of the participants’ responses to the Shabbat candle-lighting ritual.
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Past Shows
‘SPIRIT’
By
Ben, Elli and Robyn Bardas.
The exhibition is open for viewing on Wednesdays and Sundays from 11am-4pm
From June 29 until July 24
Siblings Ben, Elli and Robyn Bardas each work independently within the scope of Spirit as subject. Sometimes landscape based, the 2D works here explore spirit as place, land, and history. Spirit in these praxes may be the space in meditation, the spirit of a specific place, the sense of something or someone that was. Spirit may be experienced as energy or a non-physical presence. It may be felt in the body, or out-of-body. It may be minute or epic in scale. Spirit here is both personal and omni, specific and sublime.
Ben Bardas BFA Painting VCA, Elli Bardas BPhotog PSC, GradCertVA VCA, and Robyn Bardas BFA Painting RMIT, MFA Dunedin School of Art (NZ).
‘A Gift From and Graced by God’
By
Will Mcintyre
Opening event Wednesday June 1st at SAS, 6-9pm
The exhibition is open for viewing on Wednesdays and Sundays from 11am-4pm
until end of June
‘A gift from and graced by God’ is a painting show that investigates the relationship of my father and his brother. Through dialogues within my family a narrative has been formed to accompany the paintings.
Answer to Job by Yuval Rosinger
Opening event Wednesday April 27th at SAS, 6-9pm
The exhibition is open for viewing on Wednesdays and Sundays from 11am-4pm
until May 29th
Answer to Job is an exhibition that gesturally weaves together some of the many loose threads presented in the Book of Job. In a dream-like state, an unspecified narrator meanders neurotically about Job’s role in the canon of patriarchs, the problem of Evil, some of the complications with divine totality, and the arcane nature of free will. Join us as we reimagine the epic drama of Job through the eyes of a bystander struck by the divine beauty that dwells in man. Haphazard, emaciated, barely alive; Answer to Job is an introspective celebration of the stoic style of the martyr.
Selah by Eitan Ritz
What lingers in a space as old as East Melbourne Synagogue?
Open Sundays and Wednesdays 11am – 3pm.
Open this Wednesday the 16th of March, Purim from 9:30pm till late. See flyer.
Every Wednesday throughout the course of the exhibition, artist Eitan Ritz will sit within the space and develop a sonic installation, slowly unearthing what resonates within. This will culminate in a closing event and performance of a final iteration of the work.
Community Art Show
by Joshua Dryzin, Alexandra Ragg, Eddie Moses, Grazia Marin, John Selan, Margot Sims Cohen, Michelle Hamer
February 6th – February 27th 2022
Dov Lederberg, ‘Visions of the Rebbe/Aleph Beys’
Curated by Babs Rapeport and Moyshie Elias
CRT installation in collaboration with Haiden Nettle and 56k Records
Jan 12th-Feb 2nd 2022
The exhibition installed videos of Dov Lederberg’s Sacred Letters and Farbrengen series on CRT screens.
You can access a selection of Kabbalistic writings compiled by Nathan Wolski on the Sacred Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet for chevrusa study here.
Year Time (120 Long Life)
by Moyshie Elias and Babs Rapeport
November 28th – December 21st 2021
Riffing on the Aleph, Fay Abromwich
October 21st – November 21st 2021
“This body of work is ink on paper. The work allows for a creative interpretation of Aleph, the first letter of the Jewish alphabet. As I worked on this series, I have pondered on how letters and words evolve through time, no matter the language.”
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