Threading
This exhibit displays textile and textile-influenced works that interact with each other and the artifacts of the Italian Jewish Museum – textiles created by women and donated to their Italian synagogues – some centuries old. My piece, Pesach Hands, is a 100-year-old heirloom towel from my grandmother’s dowry. Helene Just Breuer succeeded in getting her husband, my grandfather Adolf Breuer, released from Dachau, enabling her family’s escape from Nazi Austria in January 1940. I repurposed this fabric by embroidering our young Israeli family’s hands and names in floss to become part of our Passover Seder night hand-washing ritual. It connects the generations and is a familial time capsule.
The museum website is here: https://www.moija.org/
Please check the hours ahead of your visit. There is a small entry fee.
The expected closing date of Threading is June 27
For other Jerusalem Spring Biennale information, see: https://jerusalembiennale.org/