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IIan Averbuch: The Lily Pond
September 7, 2017 - October 21, 2017
Ilan Averbuch’s The Lily Pond is an immersive installation, a visual metaphor of an aquatic environment. The installation comprises 14 sculptures displayed on large recycled granite millstones, dispersed through the gallery. The stones are raised off the ground, creating a field of seemingly floating round platforms reminding us of large lily pads on the surface of a pond.
A large stone boat is installed at the entrance of the gallery titled The Ark After Paris, elevated on stilts, creating an illusion that it is floating in mid-air. The work conjures images from early mythological stories of floods, while acknowledging the current political climate, the reality of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. The boat becomes the vessel that guides the visitor through the exhibition.
Small sculptures in steel, stone and bronze occupy the surface of each lily pad. The Contract (After Cyrus Cylinder), a stone cylinder carried by a row of bent steel forms, which suggest human bodies in movement, refers to the first declaration of human rights from 539 BCE. The Arc of the Moral Universe alludes to a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the sculpture is two round millstones joined by a brittle stone
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In March 2021, three weeks before their 12th-grade class was scheduled to fly to Poland to learn about the Holocaust, Ilan Averbuch and Avigail Porat received the news that the trip was cancelled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Their hopes to join a later delegation were dashed when the Israeli government cancelled youth delegations to Poland in June 2022 due to concerns about Polish government interference with what youth would learn on the trips. As they approached the end of their six-month mechina (preparatory) program at the Upper Galilee Leadership Institute earlier this month, Averbuch and Porat, both 18, decided to organize this long-awaited journey themselves.
“We felt that we can’t finish our education and go to the next step in our life without the Holocaust. It’s a big part of the Jewish nation’s memory, our historical memory, and it shapes so much of modern Israel and Jews all around [the world],” Averbuch told eJewishPhilanthropy. “So, we felt that it’s really important for us to do a trip in Poland and to physically witness what happened. And through standing on the ground, seeing it with our eyes, I think that can really strengthen our identity, both Jewish and Israeli.”
Thanks to Averbuch and Pora
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