The Contemporary and Tribal Art Gallery in Tel Aviv is currently hosting a solo exhibition presented by Mika Hadar, an artist, poet and healer.
Mika Hadar has been involved with art since she was eighteen and has studied at art institutions in London and Italy. The sources of her inspiration stem primarily from her upbringing. Her grandfather on her father's side was a Hassidic healer, her father could predict events before they happened, and her mother was a storyteller.
Childhood events instilled in Mika Hadar a realization and understanding that the origins of knowledge are hidden and that there are unseen powers in the human heart and soul. When she was nineteen, she changed her first name from 'Minna' to 'Mika', and thus, with a single word, changed both her identity and calling.
The works Mika Hadar has chosen to display are a quest researching the 'pilgrim of the soul'. The photographs are revelations inspired by observing natural phenomena through a photographer's lens; she probes what is hidden from the eye with repeated and revelational observation. Her images of natural views express universality, introversion with extroversion, and monochromatism with vivid colours. The differences trigger a comparison between the exhibits and the levels of intensity the images project. Even the specific identity of flowering and vegetation disappears in favour of a new understanding and expression revealed through a deeper contemplation of a subject that requires deciphering. The subject, which is the research of the seemingly 'obvious', invites the observer to discover what is inherent in it and needs a second and closer look to experience an additional truth encoded in the abundance of forms created by nature
Mika Hadar is artistically influenced by the Impressionist movement and its adherence to documenting the moment by the motions and fluctuations of light in which a scene was painted. She has also been influenced by the art movement that advocated monochromatic painting, processing the nuances of the secondary colors of various objects as the goal of expression. Contrary to the expressionist and abstract movements that did not set any boundaries related to this subject. Her diverse occupations and her natural way of observing the phenomena she has encountered have made her realize that the essence inherent in most subjects exists in the finer layers and the way they intertwine rather than in the outer shell of the experience
Therefore, a dialogue exists in the displayed works, with inherently monochromatic objects whose strength lies in their complex subtlety. In experiencing proximity to them, the view they offer loses its concrete form and yields a new, enigmatic appearance, like views of an unknown planet and worlds that neighbor our own – hidden from the eye that examines them with a conventional gaze.
Gender characterization exists in the works. They convey femininity, and embryonic qualities, hidden layer upon hidden layer, and the enigmatic secret of the feminine. They are a specific representation of a reality multilayered within an infinite fractal, emotional, and developmental levels. These require the gentle touch of understanding and empathy for the hidden information, the visibility which tempts and invites us to express ourselves in the way of the Tao. The Tao postulates that when an individual touches an object or an idea, they experience themselves rather than the object or idea.
Mika Hadar's spectacular photographs, accompanied by short poems, and texts, demonstrate to the observer the possibility of passing into a new dimension of observation in a vanishing world made visible in the way the artist experienced it in her moments of vision and creation.
Exhibition Curators: Dr Galia Duchin Arieli and Michali Adler
Interviewed, written and edited by: Yoel Emet – A member of the Academic Sector Association of Journalists in Israel © All Rights Reserved
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