{"id":4983,"date":"2017-12-04T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T19:42:35","slug":"esther-naor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/esther-naor\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther Naor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tel-Aviv based artist Esther Naor\u2019s work\u2014on view as part of a recent solo show Aftermath\u00a0at Stux + Haller Gallery\u2014addresses\u00a0reverberating themes such as immigration,\u00a0pain, terror, and the current global Refugee\u00a0Crisis.\u00a0Coming from a complex history and cultural\u00a0heritage\u2014an Iraqi Jew whose parents\u00a0immigrated to Israel in the early days of its\u00a0statehood\u2014Naor\u2019s personal history informs\u00a0her work.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Naor\u2019s subjects appear to be floating\u00a0or suspended, as if trapped in an uneasy\u00a0sense of place. Their lack of context\u2014stark\u00a0backgrounds, close cropped shots\u2014creates\u00a0the illusion of timelessness. \u201cTimelessness\u00a0is relevant here, but it\u2019s mostly a way of\u00a0distilling moments, ideas, images, and emotions\u2014without connecting them to concrete\u00a0situations and contexts. Although there are\u00a0concrete roots and sources to many images\u00a0and situations that I create, I like to leave\u00a0the final installation open as much as I can. When all the answers are there, I find the\u00a0result obviously less interesting,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>Naor often incorporates a range of unusual\u00a0media (casts of human heads, syringes,\u00a0ready-made stretchers) as part of her sculptures\u00a0and installations.\u00a0Witches are another fascination for Naor. \u201cI\u00a0believe that witches were invented by men\u00a0who needed to control women, and chose to\u00a0expel those rebellious women who \u201cendangered\u201d\u00a0the man\u2019s dominance to the margins\u00a0of their societies. Regardless of whether\u00a0those women were\/are feminists or not,\u00a0the very act of condemning them is an anti-feminist act, while expelling, or worse,\u00a0prosecuting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/esther-naor-153355-1024x681.jpg?resize=1024%2C681\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/notofu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/21-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel-Aviv based artist Esther Naor\u2019s work\u2014on view as part of a recent solo show Aftermath\u00a0at Stux + Haller Gallery\u2014addresses\u00a0reverberating themes such as immigration,\u00a0pain, terror, and the current global Refugee\u00a0Crisis.\u00a0Coming from a complex history and cultural\u00a0heritage\u2014an Iraqi Jew whose parents\u00a0immigrated to Israel in the early days of its\u00a0statehood\u2014Naor\u2019s personal history informs\u00a0her work. Many of Naor\u2019s subjects appear to be floating\u00a0or suspended, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,322],"tags":[365,366],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-magazine","tag-esther-naor","tag-stux-haller"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-1in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}