upcoming exhibition! Opening: 6. Feb. 2024 at the Barbur Gallery / Jerusalem

Revital Arbel is a surgeon, obstetrician, and artist. She performs pelvic reconstruction surgeries, repairs vulvar and vaginal tears and scarring, and creates new vaginas in Sexual reassignment surgeries. She also restores virginity as a life-saving procedure. She delivered hundreds of babies and mothers. She uses photography and embroidery to express her feelings and thoughts about her job and the injustice she observes in the hope of promoting a change. As a surgeon, Revital Arbel specializes in fusing, repairing and healing human ruptures. As an artist she has chosen to continue using needle and thread to generate intervention and repair.

“As an artist I use photography and embroidery to process and express my feelings and thoughts about the relationship between my profession and the world around me. I am in the process of creation. While I’m analyzing and while I’m an artist I’m engaged in creation, processes, thinking and turning ideas into action. Art is everything to me both when I am »working« (as a doctor) and when I am »creating« the two fields are parts of the same whole. There will be a correction for the injustices I encounter as part of my work as a doctor and as a woman. For me it is not a combination but the same »thing.«”

“My name is Revital Arbel and I am a gynecologist and a pelvic floor, vagina and vulva surgeon. I treat women of every kind imaginable, Israelis and Palestinians, secular and ultra-orthodox, women born in a female body and women born in a male body and men born in a female body and everything in between, women from here women from there, blue ID card, orange ID card, transit card, refugee card and those, well, statusless.
After literally thorough research on the subject, I come out with an unsurprising statement, everything is the same, there is no difference, the same pain, the same blood, the same meat, the same milk, under the sky and maybe beyond the clouds they are all the same and need more or less the same things. Food and water!”

upcoming exhibition! Opening: 6. Feb. 2024 at the Barbur Gallery
Herbert Samuel 2, Jerusalem

an exhibition of the „Darchin Association“ opens on Oct. 9th 2024 in ZOA.

The association “Darchi-Haybet for Art” was established in 2024 following the outbreak of the “Iron Swords” war and the need for a strong “home” for the sake of Israeli society. The founders of the association are Carmit Weizman and Yoel Weizman. Carmit has been working for many years in the field of creation and modern art alongside working in art with mentally challenged people, Yoel is an electrical engineer and lecturer who over the years led and managed the young community in Kibbutz Sdot Yam. The ambition of the association’s founders is to connect art with the community in order to create personal and community resilience by holding exhibitions, meetings, activities, creative workshops, and artistic accompaniment for people who have found themselves in the circles of loss and anxiety in Israel.

Indeed, the members of the association, the artists and creators see art as a significant tool for strengthening, providing balance and healing for the soul. In the words of Carmit Weizman, the curator of the exhibition: “Our choice is to look at things from a higher perspective, to connect with our soul and the creative energy of the universe. Precisely in this period of darkness, Pain and sadness create an opening for the expressions of the forces within us, which try to break through and shine.”

The association organizes and offers creative meetings with an experience of relaxation, creates places and meetings where you can release emotions and experiment with a new, strengthening and growing creation.
The artists of the exhibition each present in their own special and original language ways of dealing with difficult subjects and motifs, most of them related to everyday life here and now. Participants in the exhibition:
Adi Avidor, Shiral Gabbai, Sheila Oringer, Roital Arbel, Ilana Belsen, Shlomi Ben-Yiker, Lotem De Bar, Rami Ram Yogev, Sion Cohen, Gilad Kahana, Hila Lizer-Beja, Sarit Lila-Has, Einat Magal Shamali ,
Reot Mishori, Polly Max, Kobi Siboni, Yael Segal, Amit Pardes, PASE, Yehuda Roth, Limor Tzaror, Hila Ram-Tamari, Noya Shiloni-Habib, Rossello Shamaria and Maurice Cohen.

The opening of the exhibition on October 9, 2024 at 18:00

Doron Polak / Carmit Weizman – curators of the exhibition

Picts: Artura Art