Matronita Symposium at Bar Ilan University with Dvora Liss & David Sperber

The curators of the ground-breaking Jewish feminist art exhibit Matronita:   David Sperber, Curator, Lieber Center, Bar Ilan University, and Dvora Liss,  Museum of Art, Ein Harod will be doing a symposium on the show at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52906, Wednesday, February 1,  2012 -  4 PM to 8 PM


Helene Aylon's works in the exhibit are My Notebooks; My Clean Days and My Marriage Bed; Highlighting for The Liberation of G-d; and (the piece I made for the Andy Warhol Museum last spring) - My Eternal Light: The Illuminated Pink Dash. Aylon's talk is 6-6:45PM.


Tanya Fredman wrote about Aylon preparing for the show in A Week with Matronita http://mim.io/797a32 

Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art - Ein Harod Museum

Helene Aylon

The Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel. 

Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art

Opening: Friday, 11:00 a.m. 27th January 2012.

Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber

This will be the first time in Israel that a museum has organized a major exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional Jewish background.

Jewish Feminist art shares its themes with feminist art in general. Usually these are familiar subjects, such as power and oppression, body image, women as periphery, object-subject, blood and menstruation, and so on. Feminist Jewish works deal with subjects unique to the Jewish experience: niddah and immersion, hair covering, halakhic questions such as the problem of the agunah or halakhic infertility, women's prayer, and women in the study hall.