Tal Dekel is Head of the Visual Literacy Program and Curatorial Studies Track at the Kibbutzim College, and lecturer at the Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University. She specializes in contemporary visual culture in Israel. Taking a particular interest in identity construction processes under the nation-state, she pays special attention to intersectionality – race, class, gender, religion and sexuality – in order to analyze manifestations of xenophobia and sexism, as well as religious and class prejudice. Recently, she is engaged in a research project about women, old age, and migration in Israel. Her publications include Gendered – Art and Feminist Theory (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Transnational Identities – Women, Art and Migration in Contemporary Israel (Wayne State University Press, 2016) and she co-edited the book The Monk and the Lion – Contemporary Ethiopian-Israeli Art (Achoti Press, 2017).
Tal Dekel
الجندر والحواس: الفن لدى أنيسة اشقر
تستخدم أنيسة أشقر في أعمالها الفنية، جميع الحواس من أجل إبراز إشكاليّة تقاطع الفئات المختلفة التي تؤلف معًا هويّتها متعددة الطبقات. طال ديكل قامت بزيارة المعرض وكتبت حول استخدام الفنانة للحواس من أجل خلق الخانات، تحييدها ثم تفكيكها.