Barricades exhibition tour with Saher Miari, Shahar Yahalom and curator Karmit Galili

Saher Miari was born in 1974 in Kufr Makr, where he lives and works. He acquired his BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and his MFA from the University of Haifa. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha and initiates artistic projects in Arab communities in the north of Israel. Miari’s work focuses on issues that concern him as an artist-builder such as, home and masonry, construction and destruction, dismantling and assembly, wandering and migration, interior and exterior, as well as harsh working conditions referred to as “black labor”.

Shahar Yahalom was born in 1980 in Kibbutz Ein Dor. She lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. She received a BFA from the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College, and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. She is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha. Yahalom’s practice oscillates between sculpture and drawing, creating compositions that challenge the familiar hierarchical relationships between human, animal, plant, and object.

Karmit Galili is the Director and Curator of Magasin III Jaffa.