ARTIST PROFILE
- France (b. 1981 in Paris)
- Currently in Jerusalem, Israel.
- The young Franco-Israeli artist Elodie Abergel has been part of the “contextual art” movement for several years. In her work she offering up a humanistic yet poetic and critical view of politics in the Middle East.
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Allya Therapy | 2013
Aliyah –Therapy, 2012-2013 Text written by Deborah Abergel At the age of 25, the artist chose to settle in Israel, her “Aliyah”, which means literally “going up towards Israel”. This was not a “return to the promised land” for her, but an exploration of new “shared territories” in the continuity of her Fine Art studies and work. Pursuing her chosen path in terms of personal, artistic and civic-awareness development in Jerusalem, in “Aliyah Therapy”, the artist gives expression to her powerful but paradoxical links with Israel. These links are revealed in works fraught with both a profound attachment to ancestral Judaism and a similarly profound rooting in French secularism. Daughter to a Jewish father of Moroccan origin and a French mother wedded to Jewish culture, the artist, who had long been immersed in the traditional Judaism of the Diaspora, lived this experience as a therapy to which these works bear poignant witness. A “therapy” also in the sense that this lesson in life has also allowed her to seek out new shared territories within her.