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Varda Yatom
Sculptor and installation artist. Lives and works in Kibbutz Sasa, Upper Galilee.
Installation: Ebb and Flow, 2025
Time is not a straight line.
It is a sharp, irregular breath.
A fragment shifting in the body – sometimes like a cry, sometimes like a wave that arrives without a sound.
In response to the arrhythmia of our lives, Ebb and Flow invites us to sense time in two directions: upward and downward.
A pull towards the ground, and a longing for height.
Sunken boats, buried in millennia, lost in the desert sands.
Echoes of a journey, or a dream that sank.
Skeletons. Shells. Layers.
Above them – clay human figures cling to descending ropes—arteries from above.
Survivors?
The fired clay, shaped and hardened by time, holds within it the terror of fracture.
Fracture and connection coexist.
Sometimes, the break occurs only to allow a new connection.
Ebb and Flow – the movement of life: ascent, descent, grasp… and release.
The tide floods, the ebb empties.
Varda Yatom places the viewer inside a space where time is present—
not as past or future, but as a physical, existential experience.
Exhibition Opening: July 25, 2025, 11 am
Program For Opening Day:
11 am – 11:15 am Gathering and light refreshments
11:15 am Speech by the CEO – Michal Shiloah Galnoor
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Gallery talk with sculptor Varda Yatom and exhibition curator Asia Dublin
Admission is free, with advance registration!
Asia Dublin – Curator, designer and jeweler, lives in Adamit in the Western Galilee and has been evacuated since the beginning of the war on October 7.
Over the past few years, she has produced and initiated a wide range of projects in the Galilee in various fields. Over the past decade, she has curated dozens of exhibitions in various private and public spaces such as the Ghetto Fighters Gallery, the Rosh Hanikra Gallery and the Kabri Gallery. Asia started her career in the field of jewelry, developed a career as an interface designer in the high-tech field and is currently engaged in independent multidisciplinary work; curation, interior design, sustainable design, restoration, reconstruction and preservation.
Western Galilee Now is a registered non-profit grassroots organization (NGO) promoting awareness and appreciation for the region’s boutique wines, beers, food and produce, along with its cultural diversity, its historic traditions and the area’s scenic routes nestled between the mountains and the Mediterranean Sea acting as a Chamber of Commerce to boutique tourism operators in the region.
We expose the visitors to the unique heritage and hospitality through workshops, culinary events, art, music, guides tours, festivals and also through our Tourist Information Center in Akko, owned by JNF USA which we were chosen to operate since Jan. 2016.
Our vision is to develop local and foreign tourism based on close cooperation between all the interested parties in the region.
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