Tracing Shadows coming soon
SPITALE - VKU
WURZBURG, Germany
An international project of the artist and the poet,
Dafna Rehavia & David Ian Hanauer
Tracing Shadows invites voices, memories, echoes, and emotions from both past and present to surface, be witnessed, and shared.
Through sculpture, installation, fiber art, screen printing, video, poetry, and handwritten text, the artists engage with the psychological echoes of familial and inherited trauma. The works do not attempt to resolve these histories, not the present times, but rather to acknowledge their presence —the on going violence, and to trace the shadows they cast across bodies, relationships, and cultures.
Mirroring or confronting experiences of violence, loss, and silence, the exhibition opens a space for empathy and reflection. It proposes that growth can emerge through acts of recognition, exposure, and care. In this way, Tracing Shadows becomes a bridge between past and present, personal memory and collective experience, inviting a shared dialogue that honors vulnerability, resilience, and the possibility of repair.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen
our stories
‘Patterned and Pressed into Place’
A screen print on a squashed fabric with texture of plaster like tinte, attached to an iron board. Image of my mother when she was 9 or 10 years old, 1938/9 was taken in Jerusalem. She is wearing a beautiful dress that her mom made for her and holding a little girl bag that maybe holds all her dreams.
Mourn for me
Just a segment of a house wall,
canvas, plaster, cardebord, text, string, .
she said no
Mixed Media, collage, ready made, paint , masking tape, hand writing, photographed and printed on fabric .
RE_PAIR
Through the image of two upended upside, skeletal bounded chairs. RE_PAIR explores the tension between destruction and restoration. A dual meaning of the title; repair what is broken and re-pairing symbolically two souls through kind of dance movement as they suspended in that position.
