The Museum of Arts of the 21st Century is Italy's first national institution dedicated to contemporary creativity. The composition of the activities – exhibitions, workshops, conferences, demonstrations, projections, educational projects – reflects the vocation of MAXXI as a place of preservation and exhibition of its collections.
The works of Tsibi Geva, Maria Saleh Mahameed and Noa Yekutieli tell of a complex cultural reality between identity and place, memory and bond.
The three artists differ in their origins, influences, sensibilities, and even in the techniques and materials they prefer. Nevertheless, her works reveal unexpected connections. The exhibited works are rooted in individual biographies and tell of intimate yet universal experiences.
Tsibi Geva, of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, son of one of the leading exponents of the Israeli Bauhaus, is an established and internationally renowned artist who lives and works between Tel Aviv and New York; Maria Saleh Mahameed, born and raised in Israel's most populous Arab city, is the daughter of a Palestinian father and a Ukrainian Christian mother; Noa Yekutieli is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist born in California to a Japanese mother and an Israeli father, splitting her time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles.
Tsibi Geva, Where I Come From, 2019. Photo Credit: Elad Sarig. Courtesy: l'artista
Drawing on the Jungian concept of the "collective unconscious", a heritage from the distant past common to all of humanity, Conscious Collective explores how it is possible to rediscover a sense of collectivity even in a country where conflict is a constant, and how acceptance of life with its contradictions can be the key to a better existence.
17 March to 4 June 2023
