Maria Saleh Mahameed in a new group show at Petach Tikva Museum

​We are delighted to announce the participation of Maria Saleh Mahmeed in a new group exhibition, ‘Another Language’ at Petach Tikva Museum, along side Tsibi Geva and Noa Yekutieli, curated by Irena Gordon. Saleh Mahameed is showing a large scale work titled ‘Is This in our Nature?’ made with her famous charocoal on canvas technique.

“… An epic presence of gradually accumulating scrolls unfolds Saleh Mahameed personal story as a woman, a mother, and an artist, as well as the collective story of life in Israel against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, violence and crime in Arab and Jewish society, and the war in Ukraine. ​
​In 'Is This in Our Nature?' the epic is thickened with another layer, when motifs recurring in her work—such as the mare and her own figure—are joined by new images of bound figures hovering in the expanses of the canvas, as if trying to detach themselves from the ground, as well as drawings of floating babies. Man and beast blend into hybrid creatures, as the painting transforms, for the first time, into a sculptural installation that floats in space.​
​The title of the exhibition, “Another Language,” was extracted from Bertolt Brecht’s poem “When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain,” discussing the numbing habit and the stupor vis-a-vis the atrocious actions of humans.
​The prophet at the gate tries to shout, but his words are not heard, as he speaks another language, to which other people are not attentive. “ text by Irena Gordon

Exhibition opened 1 June, 2023 and will be on through 28 October 2023