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  Lilith | 2014

Lilith, 2014 Text written by Deborah Abergel According to the Kabala, Lilith was Adam’s first female companion in the Garden of Eden, before Eve. Made from the same clay as Adam, she considered herself as his equal, and refused both her inferior place in the couple and any reconciliation with God’s order to comply with man’s desire. A woman both rebellious and free, she represents matriarchy pre-existent to patriarchy whose advent relegated the former to evil and even demoniac status – a creature of the night, embodying a sexual demon, at once the “femme fatale” or sterile crone. Around this myth, the artist constructs works which query women’s place in a world dictated by men for men: a world where, for some, women become respectable only when they become mothers, and yet…