Thank you to Jassie in Jerusalem for this interesting look round the Museum on the Seam, a socio-political contemporary art museum.
Now the socio-political museum hosts all types of exhibits “in order to raise controversial social issues for public discussion.” The intense exhibit we saw, called “Flesh & Blood,” included artists from all over the world, even a few from the US. The focus was to scrutinize the relationship between mankind and animals.
(Below right) Not sure who or what to attribute to this giant tongue, but I love this pic of it licking Ross. I don’t think he thought about it, but his Morrissey shirt was a good choice to wear to this exhibit as Moz is holding the first vegetarian Staples Center show soon. (He convinced the venue to close down McDonald’s for the concert and asked all the other vendors to refrain from selling any meat.)
One of the more beautiful pieces is a ceramic bulls head covered in a red crochet knit. This picture doesn’t do it justice! Created by Joana Vasconcelos, an extremely talented Portuguese artist, it’s meant to get the observer to think about bull fighting and the beauty and spectacle of the event as well as the cruelty and death.
By far, the weirdest piece (definitely weirder than the tongue) was the fallen angel with de-feathered wings. Again, the picture doesn’t do the work justice – it is so incredibly life-like that I was sure it was a person that was going to get up and scare us. Ross and I were the only two people in the top floor of the museum – completely alone with it -and I was getting the heebie-jeebies! Created by two Chinese artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, this hyperrealistic life-size sculpture suggests, I think, that the fall of man has to do with his treatment of animals (since his wings resemble chicken wings).
Location: L 4 Chel Handasa st, P.O.B. 1649, Jerusalem 91016
Entry Fee: Adult 30 NIS