Ritual and Reality

Ritual and Reality

Yishay Garbasz

Feb 14 – Mar 21, 2014

Yishay Garbasz

Convenience store on Rrt 6 after clean up operation, Fukushima (former Exclusion Zone opened April, 2013), 2014

Description

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts presents photographer Yishay Garbasz in her first major New York solo exhibition. Working across themes of memory, history, separation, and healing, Garbasz consistently captures both the pain of injury and the desire for reconciliation through her camera lens. Previous bodies of work exploring her mother’s survival of a Holocaust death march and Garbasz’s own personal journey with gender identity exemplify this dichotomy of pain and beauty. Physical location, and the inextricable link to the events that take place there, plays a large role in Garbasz’s interests. She focuses on places that have been forgotten or abandoned and where the physical signs of pain are obscured.

In Ritual and Reality, we join Garbasz on her journey through Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, where on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was hit by a tsunami triggered by the Tohoku earthquake. The resulting catastrophic failure has become the largest nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Garbasz’s investigation into Fukushima continues her life-long quest to explore and document spaces that have gone through a serious trauma.

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Yishay Garbasz

Fukushima Prefectural Ono Hospital in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone

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Yishay Garbasz

Fukushima Prefectural Ono Hospital in the Nuclear Exclusion Zone

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Yishay Garbasz

Cleanup operations on a highway extension of Joban Expressway construction site, Futuba, Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone

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Yishay Garbasz

Salary Man Paradise, Shimbashi, Tokyo

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Yishay Garbasz

Akihabara Under the Train Tracks, Tokyo, 2014

Yishay Garbasz

Golf driving range, Mukaihata, Okuma-machi, Futaba, Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone, 2014

Yishay Garbasz

No. 2 Takaku Kasetsu (temporary evacuee dorm) in Chuodai, Iwaki City, Iwaki, 2014

Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.