Ruthie Halvitz Cohen: Behind the Silent Darkness
The creative process for this exhibition began with a sketchy dialogue that Ruthie Helwitz Cohen had with the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the renowned Indian poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature. While reading his book Sadhana , which deals with the training of the spirit, the artist wrote a pictorial response on the text with a ballpoint pen.
In her work, Halivitz Cohen responds to books of thought and poetry and to sources, an ongoing process from which a variety of painting, sculpture, video and sound installations emerged. This work was inspired by Tagore’s book, Fireflies , which contains short verses of poetry, which were for her like sparks shining from the darkness, and ignited in her a desire to walk a long way with him and listen to his voice, to his voice. The book also bears a personal dedication; Halivitz Cohen received it from her partner, after it was inherited from her father, and later their son Nadav composed the sounds that play in the exhibition space, inspired by it.
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