[link to Patir's series]

Articles about the works of Art acquisition of Artist, Ruth Patir's by The Jewish Museum

news.artnet.com

The Jewish Museum in New York has acquired a video by Israeli artist Ruth Patir that was hidden in protest at the Venice Biennale.

When the Biennale opened in April 2024, The artist and the pavilion’s curators—Mira Lapidot of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Tamar Margalit of CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo—barred it from view in protest of the ongoing conflict.

A series of videos, digitally animated versions of Iron Age fertility goddesses, used to explore “the complex intersection of gender, motherhood, and the tensions surrounding fertility and reproductive rights in today’s world.”