I invite you to stop thinking
Yozma Synagogue, Modi’in. Curated by Din, organized by Nir Barkin. Photographed by Daniel Shiff.
Look at the colors and stop suffering. You don't always have to connect to reality. You can take a moment and come up with a loving layer that will protect you. Lie on the floor, look at the stars above and fiddle with the colors on the page.
Connect for a moment to the colorful bubbles that exist around your body.
up ahead,
Connect to pink and purple bubbles that decorate the area in front of your stomach and chest.
Behind you, imagine red blue and green bubbles swirling around your back.
Breathe into the bubbles. See and know that these areas around your body, front and back, are yours.
You can always expand consciousness there, send it back and forth to these areas.
You can get frustrated and breathe into these bubbles instead of thinking.
instead of sinking into what you feel
Instead of thinking about the reality of yesterday, today and tomorrow,
Instead of feeling what is inside the body.
You always have the option to expand like this.
It's not always the most important thing to do, but it's always an option and a beautiful part of the experience.
Look at the paintings and stop thinking.
Let them decorate your heart.
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Sivan Lavie's paintings are endless variations of streams of consciousness that find new and multiple forms in different materials, techniques, sizes and formats. They flow, shine and are optimistic, but do not forget the difficulty. They happen in a multitude of picturesque occurrences, they are paintings of desire! They are cute and honest, they let us see them in their everyday clumsiness (which is why they can be accommodated in life in spaces that are disconnected from the world of art). They invite us to look at ourselves in the mirror at strange angles. When you get frustrated with them, you have to think from the eye and the stomach and let the parts inside us that look like this resonate. The choice of a synagogue as an exhibition space emphasizes the spirit that blows in them, which can converse with the spirit of prayer, fly alongside it and even wink at it.
- Din Bar
Curated by Din Bar, Organized by Rabbi Nir Barkin. Photographed by Daniel Shiff
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