Art Exhibition Presented By Embassay Of Israel On Occassion Of Hanukkah

The exhibition is open to the public from December 5 to December 23 at Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi.

Lighting of the Menorah, a traditional candle stand. (File Photo)

New Delhi: The Embassy of Israel in India organised an exhibition in collaboration with Alliance Française de Delhi titled 'In Another Green' in which two artists present works that tell the story of their own history and identity.

The exhibition is open to the public from December 5 to December 23 at Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi.

In Another Green explores the dynamics of colonialism in Israel through the theme of nature. It borrows its title from ‘Preliminary Background Remarks’ a poem by the Algeria-born Israeli poet Erez Biton that accentuates the disintegration of Eastern Jewish traditions in Israel and the poet’s conflicted cultural position. The artworks on display engage with the binary opposition of culture and nature that shapes the colonial matrix of power and with the perception that para-modern societies are closer to nature.

About the artists

Leor Grady is an Israeli-born visual artist. His conceptual, sculptural, threaded and video works explore themes of home and identity politics. His work has been shown in Israel, the USA and abroad.

Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune is a French-Israeli artist working at the intersection of video, photography, performance, drawing, architecture and social action. Joseph Dadoune has participated in over 200 solo and group exhibitions all over the world.

About Hanukkah

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, the festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, commonly called a menorah or hanukkiah.