“For Noam Toran’s second solo show at RawArt gallery, the artist presents an installation addressing the pervasive imprint of settler mythologies and imaginaries onto desert landscapes. The origin desert for the work is the Chihuahuan desert where the artist was born, a territory that encompasses present-day northeastern Mexico as well as the states of Texas and New Mexico. Through mixed-media montage, personal memoir, and the haunted remains of a set, We Crave Blood materially, sonically, and cinematically explores the phantasmagoria of a region and landscape that exists within the Western European imagination more as myth than as place.” (Maya Bamberger, Noam Toran and Keith Jones, 2023)

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practical information

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Exhibition title: We Crave Blood
Location: RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv ^(ISR)
Date: feb. 16 - march 25 2023
Opening: feb. 16 2023
Artist talk: feb. 17 2023, from noon

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credits

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Curator: Maya Bamberger
Artist: Noam Toran
Commissioned works by: Tanguy Benoit, Sam Conran, Clara Schweers and Nick Williamson
Photograph: left side, Tumbling Tumbleweed, Quieter Than Silence (2023) by Tanguy Benoit ; inside the We Crave Blood installation (2023) by Noam Toran ; photographed by Yigal Pardo

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they’re talking about it

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🔗 ArtFacts, MutualArt, RawArt Gallery, The Jerusalem Post, Transart Institute

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