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JaffaCakes TLV

16 Apr-15 May 2010

Kenny Schachter / Rove
London N1 6NN

Overview

"Very little of the groundbreaking art created in Israel in the last decade responded directly to [the political unrest], either because artists felt powerless to change a harsh reality, or because they chose to adopt a universalist stance in an attempt to rise above the purely local." (Amitai Mendelsohn, Real Time: Art in Israel: 1998-2008).Entitling the show after the well-loved biscuits is a play on words. Its familiarity provides the perfect combination of mundane and mischievous, yet references a geographical location. Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world has become the centre of Israel's fringe culture; it is youthful, daring and avant -garde.