A Black Windrose | A reading into Tal Shoshan's exhibition "Savage Spirit"

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In "Savage Spirit", Tal Shoshan takes us on a journey across time, following the feminine body as a territory of western, traditional, modern and contemporary perspectives, polarizing platforms of past and present. The traditional role and habits of the domesticated woman; the seamstress, the embroideress, the laundress, the caretaker, whose repetitive actions create a private, protected and familiar space, set against the artist; whose abjected crafty practices disowned her from recognition. The artist is seeking to destroy the traditional tools, the house and its surrounding walls, to break free into the modern woods and constantly create new world orders. The contrast between the woman as a conquered territory, a land, savage nature observed by the researching gaze of science; and the contemporary, allegedly free woman, who is a master of her own body, observed only by her own researching gaze.