Project Runway 2009
Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya, Israel, Curator: Monica Lavi
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Margot Gran uses the format of the reality show to frame fantasies, dreams, fears, home comforts, private and family history. The reality show is used as a code that seems open and readable, which is why it so effectively camouflages the closed code, the personal,
and in order to read it you need to know the language of the accumulated signs. According to Gran, the exhibition is part of a spiritual and personal journey, expressed through the use of popular media. The scissors that cut the cloth, a man using a sewing machine within a bleeding frame, smiley-like buttons grouped together like an attack of evil aliens, a heart made of clay, small skeletons - all these construct the exhibition and its runway, the thoughts and their associations, and the handicraft of art and life, built step by step, with the hope of arriving….where? ( exert from catalog text by Monica Lavi) The runway is also interpreted by Gran as an artery in the body, as a way of life, with several paths, allowing one to simultaneously see the repetitive movement, and the expansion and contraction of the human journey                 oil on canvas, 40x40 cm, 2009
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