INVISIBLE WOUNDS

INVISIBLE WOUNDS PROJECT

OPENING: Friday, October 18th, 2024, 5:00 pm -  9:00 pm
CLOSING: November 22, 5- 8 pm 

Featured Artists: Dafna Rehavia and David Hanauer

Also featuring: Workshop artists and AIR archives artists

On View by Appt. info@artistsimageresource.org
Artists Image Resource (AIR) 518 Foreland St. Pittsburgh 15212

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Invisible Wounds Project is a collaborative remediation between mixed media artist and art therapist Dafna Rehavia and David Hanauer, a poet, autoethnographer, and journaler. Merging their respective artistic disciplines, bodily sensations and semi-consciousness memories are ingrained in each process pursued.

 The artists define “An invisible wound as a silent echo of pain, a hidden scar etched deep within the body. It is an unseen bruise and a quiet ache that lingers in the shadow of the mind. These wounds shape our stories as they whisper from generation to generation. They are the silent battles we fight, the unspoken sorrows we feel, the unseen challenges we carry with us.”

 Through written and spoken word, physical materials dried solid, draped yet still dripping in the emotional outpouring of its process. For this project, Dafna and David ripped-opened their methods with an obsession to capture grief and hope- in overlapping photographs with writing in printmaking, photography, collage, stitched, ripped, and repurposed sculpture. Each work is formed in ritual, touching upon the self as a wounded object that retains the memories and scars of past personal, familial, and cultural trauma. This layering process manifested in each work is an artistic mending process that brings into presence those things that are too difficult to present.

 Two public workshops were held on September 1st and 20th to create a safe space and emotional containers for participants to explore non-verbally significant moments that have impacted their lives. In the workshops, mixed media sculpture and written word are sculpted. Participants were encouraged to approach the workshop with an experiential process, free of the pressure of an end product, as experience will lead to a deeper connection to self with a means to express it. These works will additionally be on view in the exhibition. Artists Image Resource will also have curated works from their archives collection that further represent various artists' takes on “Invisible Wounds.”

 A Workshop Participant commented that ‘the Invisible Wound workshop was the best. Much thanks to Dafna and David for facilitating such a mindful approach to artful expression. The process was most excellent albeit vulnerable and empowering.”

The project is generously supported by The Staunton Farm Foundation, coordinated in partnership with Radiant Hall Studios, Artists Image Resource and Bright Archives Independent Production House.