Etti Abergel, “Decodage”, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, 13 September to 11 November 2019
Etti Abergel creates different types of bifurcations and tensions between the private and the public universe. In the face of cultural hegemony she creates a new world as a painter, sculptor and performer. By challenging purely conceptual and abstract art, she imposes herself as a brilliant artist who is careful to the transformation of memory through various visualization processes.
Among other things, she illustrates the effects of the immigration of first and second generation Jews to Israel. She underlines the trauma in a particular language where the sensitive links between loneliness and the group of adoption emerge, where the depths of myths and memory open up to those who are pushed to find new existential spaces by standing on their own.
There is both a concrete and a conceptual vision of the world at stake. Everything remains in tension as works that, in seeking a new language, remain influenced by what lies behind those who have gone before. The autobiographical aspect of the work is constant but without the ego taking over.
The language learned and taught is mixed with the language that belongs to the artist and is nourished by her memory and that of her community. The whole in order to create a tangible universe. She reactivates another vision of the world and a way of living a new existence. Everyone can find echoes in it.
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