Galya Rosenfeld
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Modular Judaica Series, 2007
Parochet & Caporet (Torah Arc Coverings), 2007, Repurposed readymade: laser-cut, light-reflective, interwoven, modular fabric
Torah cover, 2007, Repurposed readymade: laser-cut, light-reflective, interwoven, modular fabric
Torah binder (wimpel), 2007, Laser-cut, interwoven, modular muslin fabric

The Torah cover is made from fabric that was originally part of IKEA curtains which surrounded me in my home. Inspiration to use something from my daily life came from the catalogue to the 1985 Israel Museum exhibition From the Secular to the Sacred: Everyday Objects in Jewish Ritual Use. The practices it chronicles, which today we would call ‘reclaiming,’ ‘recycling,’ and ‘upcycling,’ were used in Jewish communities when secular garments and objects made from the best materials that could be obtained were endowed with religious significance through skilled craft and turned into ritual objects.
My technique of repurposing materials involves a modular design where the negative spaces between the shapes are as important as the shapes themselves – echoing, in a way, how we read ‘between the lines’ with unceasing interpretations of the Torah. Interconnectedness is vital in Jewish thought and is equally essential to the design of the modules and the way they work together to create pattern. Pattern has the power to move us to a meditative state similar to that of reading prayer.
The Torah binder explores the fragility of life, specifically of Jewish life, as expressed by the simple frayed fabric from which it is made. Its inspiration was drawn from a 19th-century German Torah binder made, according to a particular custom, from the cloth on which an infant was circumcised. The connection between the needs of life and the objects that adorn the Torah is manifest in the Hebrew names for these objects: Torah ‘coat,’ ‘case,’ ‘binder’ or ‘swaddling cloth,’ and ‘belt.’”

Exhibited in Hiddur Mitzvah: Aesthetics in Jewish Ceremonial Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Reinventing Ritual at The Jewish Museum, New York and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Currently on exhibition in Pointing the Way: Women Design Ceremonial Objects at the Israel museum, Jerusalem.

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CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY: 

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Fabricated Landscape 1/2/6, Warm/Cool Diptych
   Oct/11/2023 - Nov/11/2023
   Color Theory, 2023 (Online Group Exhibition)
   SITE:BROOKLYN, NEW YORK     
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+ Modular Torah Mantles with Magen David Pattern, 2021-2022
   2021 - Ongoing | Core Exhibition
   Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present
   JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN, GERMANY     >


+ Modular  Caporet, 2015
   ​2015 - Ongoing | Core Exhibition
   Hallelujah! Assemble, Pray, Study – Synagogues Past and Present
   ANU – MUSEUM OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE (Beit HaTfotzot)

+ Modular Ark Enclosure, Seven Species - Sacred Spaces, 2013
   Double-layer enclosure allowing three ways to use
​​   313 x 193 cm
   TEMPLE ISRAEL, OMAHA, NEBRASKA     >

photos by: 
Ariel Caine, Shay Ben-Efraim, Aya Wind, Paul Trapani, 
Ben Mayoga, Richard Goodbody Inc., Simon Weller
RECENT PAST EXHIBITS:

+ Fabricated Landscape Series, 
Warm/Cool Diptych
   June/2023 - July/2023

   Living Colors, 2023 (Group Exhibition)
​   VITRINA GALLERY​,
HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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+ FABRICATED LANDSCAPE, 2022 (Solo Exhibition)

   Oct/2022 - Nov/2022
   Six large modular textile pieces in new technique
​   RAMAT AVIV MALL ARTISTS GALLERY, TEL AVIV

+ Can't Hear the Sea for the Waste, 2020 (Group Exhibition)
​   Feb/2020 - Apr/2020

   Rash Rash Rash: Contemporary Noise Makers of the Bezalel School 
   THE CYMBALISTA JEWISH HERITAGE CENTER, TEL AVIV.    >

+ Studies of Angled Modules, 2008 (Group Exhibition)
   2016
   Repetitive Motifs in Ritual Objects and in Contemporary art,
   MANE-KATZ MUSEUM, HAIFA     >


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