The Department of Goldsmiths and Fashion at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem invites you to the exhibition "Breakthrough Shoes". Claure Art and Design Gallery Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus, 1 Zamora St., Jerusalem
The exhibition features 19 designers, all graduates of the jewelry and fashion department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
Among the unique designs, you can find hand shoes for acrobats and circus performers alongside shoes that tell of a dream to fly after a serious injury and shoes that are a challenge to the familiar sneakers.
Alongside the useful function of shoes there are messages of freedom, softness, freedom of movement but also messages of restriction and confinement (shoes as a sign of submission and devotion). In their works, the creators try to respond to freedom, movement, restriction. The exhibition features shoes that reflect the planning, design and creation processes of students from the past six years, as part of the studies in the jewelry and fashion department at Bezalel.
The shoes are surprising and present different perspectives on man, his life, his culture and his world. Their creation is based on a traditional body of knowledge, combined with one-off inventions, which were developed for the first time as a result of the need to design and touch the material. The design process tells a story through useful and wearable shoes, loaded with new meanings, which have the power to offer and create a different reality - a new user experience. The items presented in the exhibition move in the space between the wild and the civilized, between the personal and the public, between the local and the global, between the contemporary and the future. They express preoccupation with a variety of issues such as: gender and cultural identity, ecology, sustainability, technology, body image, protest, disruption and more.
"The practice of design in the environment of the body expresses the department's identity and its uniqueness in the local and international arena" says Shelly Seth-Kumbor - head of the jewelry and fashion department. We are the leading department in Israel in the field of shoe design and among the leading in the world. The department places sustainability and social responsibility at the center of its work. Through the creation in the fields taught in it, the ambition and dreams to preserve the environment are encouraged, to create a culture that enables a more egalitarian reality".
Curator of the exhibition: Shelly Setet-Kumbor, Eliora Lemer-Ginzburg, Kobi Levy, Yossi FarkashModerators: Shelly Setet-Kumbor, Eliora Lemer-Ginzburg, Dr. Zivya Kay, Yaron Ronen, Naomi Hertz ListExhibitors at the exhibition: Abergel Ernit, Azarzar Noa, Atlan Elodi, Einbinder Oded, Elbaz Lior, Arbel Roni, Ben Porat Naama, Julian Noa, Goldberg Maayan, Goldstein Ganit, Germi Hadaya, Holzer Hila, Singer Hana, Hagai Tomi, Kahan Yael, Levski Yale, Nashef Islam, Siloni Bar, Selsi Hadar, Kedem Omer, Campanino Shao, Kaplan Maya, Cartes Ophir, Kerko Maya, Robin Noa, Rokah Nitzan, Shahar Gil, Sason Roni.Acknowledgments: Vared Alush, department coordinator Danny Schwartz, Emre Kabada, Oded Einbinder, Jihad Gwilis