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solo exhibition; No longer — not yet

The international studio curatorial program, brooklyn, new york

Curated by Jenée daria strand

on view through june 21, 2024

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is pleased to present Noa Yekutieli: No Longer — Not Yet, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, curated by Jenée-Daria Strand. Using wood, fabric, and her signature manual paper-cutting technique, Yekutieli creates striking renderings of real and imagined scenes, densely populated with sprawling flora, repeating patterns, and destroyed landscapes. For this exhibition, the artist transforms the gallery into a series of stage-like installations that relate to memory and the notion of belonging. The works reflect on cycles of destruction, loss, and trauma, themes that Yekutieli frequently contemplated while growing up in Israel and that are even more palpable for her today. In the face of the ongoing conflict and grim everyday realities of life in Israel and Palestine, she looks for, in her words, “different languages and spaces of reflection to shift patterns of violence and trauma, and oppose the idea of a singular narrative.”

Yekutieli’s family history sits at the fore of her work. In her intricate collage-like pieces, she incorporates formal strategies, craft traditions such as woodworking and sewing, and cultural symbolism inspired by her American-Japanese-Israeli heritage. Her approach to paper-cutting, for instance, is influenced by the Japanese concept of using negative space as a compositional element. Drawing on rediscovered photographs of her family, Yekutieli questions what is lost and what is left as a result of her experiences with immigration and assimilation. She embraces a state of between-ness—contending with the complexities of her multicultural intersectional identity. In each installation, she juxtaposes polarities of positive and negative, hope and reality, brutality and beauty, and destruction and growth. Much like deconstructed tapestries, thin lines of connection spill across the landscape’s chasms, creating a tension between fragility and strength. Stretching the paper compositions across the gallery’s walls, Yekutieli tests the limits of the material and creates—in scale and technique—some of her most ambitious works to date.

ISCP galleries are currently open from Monday–Friday, 10:30am–5:30pm

1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

common ground; Israeli Art Meets Archaeology (group exhibition)

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Curated by Tanya sirakovich, amitai mendelson, pirchiya eyal, ahiad ovadia

On view April- October, 2024

I am glad to announce that The Israel Museum has recently acquired Shoji Screen for the museum’s permanent collection.

sci arc channel - artist conversation

Crew Credits: Production: Creator and Executive Producer - Hernán Díaz Alonso Producers - Marcelyn Gow/Reza Monahan Director of Photography - Sean Meredith Additional Videography - Yoni Shrira Post-Production: Story Producer - Vivian Charlesworth Editors - Cal Crawford/Reza Monahan Additional Images and Video Courtesy of Noa Yekutieli and Track 16 Gallery ©2021 SCI-Arc Channel