What happens when love becomes not just an emotion, but also a material? A new exhibition at the Eilat Artists' Gallery seeks to examine this familiar concept through a variety of perspectives, connecting love for human beings, memories, nature, and the place where one lives.
The group exhibition "Multidimensional Love," curated by Shira Keshet, features works by local artists from Eilat and the surrounding region. Instead of offering a single definition of love, it addresses its many faces and the connections it creates between a person and their environment.
One of the highlight pieces in the exhibition is "Desert Love" by artist Tal Gilboa Ardon. The piece, measuring 120×200 cm., is made of earth, clays, and minerals collected in the Eilat Mountains, without the use of industrial pigments.
At the center of the artwork appears the heart symbol, the "Milagros" – an amulet identified with healing, passion, and miracles. However, here the heart is not merely an image painted on the surface of the work, but is created from the earth itself, so that the connection between the emotion and the place becomes a tangible part of the creation.
"The work seeks to connect the human heartbeat with the heartbeat of the desert," says Gilboa Ardon. "The raw local material becomes a spring of love and connection, reminding us that the nature around us is not just a landscape, but the material from which our deepest emotions are made."
For the exhibition's curator as well, the connection between art and place is central. "It was important to me that in an exhibition dealing with love, there would also be room for love of the place – love for the landscape, the earth, and the city that is home," says Shira Keshet. According to her, the choice to create a heart from Eilat soil makes the idea tangible: "The love is not just directed toward the place, it is truly made of it."
The exhibition is open to the public at the Eilat Artists' Gallery and will be on display until October 4, 2026.