Solo Exhibition Jewboy
The exhibition delves into the personal archive of Yaron Shin, Jewboy, and contains works that have not been shown before. Most of the illustrations identified with Shin’s distinctive hand were made on the fly, “subconscious sketches” from chance cafés, embodying strange creatures and figures, some composed of those closest to the artist while others entirely fictitious. Jewboy offers the viewer an intimate and complex glimpse using the most modest toolbox - pencil, pen, cardboard, sticky notes. He leaves the file behind and brings the raw material to center stage.
The gallery’s salon was wrapped in packing paper, like a natural continuation of the artist’s works, with the thought of a journey to an unknown destination, or alternatively - a return from one. A journey provides an opportunity to shake off routine, but it is also a kind of paring down; the traveler finds themselves with the essentials, with the “most modest toolbox” - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, and allows themselves to get lost. They may also take a souvenir with them, after carefully choosing what there is room for.
Curators: Asaf Hinden and Irit Hayon
