GILI AVISSAR | BLACK TONGUE | MEWO KUNSTHALLE, MEMMINGEN, GERMANY

 
16 June – 14 October 2018
 
The colorful fabrics in Gili Avissar’s works are sewn into extensive installations. They hang from scaffolding and divide the space like walls. Other shapes emerge from the objects, they are filled, connected or weighted down with ropes and strings in the room. The patterns and textures of the different fabrics come together in the installations to form shimmering collages.
 
Gili Avissar works continuously on and with these objects. He constantly changes and integrates them into a new context. One can almost refer to this way of work as organic. He repeatedly modifies old works, dividing them up or sewing them into a different context altogether. Every space requires him to create new works. The works are abstract. Only occasionally can the viewer speculate to have seen concrete representations. The fabric-stitched images of eyes form the center of two works. They look out of the objects as if a gigantic creature is behind it. The fabric sculptures become the costumes of uncanny figures. The objects have their own life.
 
Costumes constitute an important part of Gili Avissar’s work. In addition to being part of extensive works, his costumes are created also for people, who wear them in performances in the exhibition rooms. The desire to disguise and to change is omnipresent. Gili Avissar has often worked with theater and dance productions and designed costumes and spatial productions. His large installations seem to dress up the space, they disguise it as a place of aesthetic creativity, and turn it into a stage.

Curator: Axel Lapp