The exhibition "A-Vitruvian" is an expression of the artists' ongoing search for their place in the world as women and as a group of artists working together. Each one separately, and together as a group, they examine gender and its boundaries and the feminist perspective on its many shades in the various contexts of life: motherhood, childhood, non-parenthood and old age. Their works address the struggle with the dynamic and changing female body and its inherent potential - between the ability to create life, to be a sexual object, an object of desire and to cope with breast cancer and death.
The exhibition will feature individual and group works by the Fedart* group in various media from the past three years: painting, collage, photography, sculpture, ready-made objects and performance. Abigail Arnkranz will present the entrance door to her teenage daughter's room, a collage that connects the queer present with the figure of her grandmother in exile, and a mobile that combines self-portraits from childhood and adulthood; Gali Hachmon's embroideries are full of stories and thoughts about how we perceive feminine beauty and are part of a work that takes part in a performance that will take place in the gallery; Zohar Bruria Brands advertises her uterus for rent, just as apartments and cars used to advertise with a fan to rip out a phone number: "Uterus for rent, 2 healthy ovaries"; Lilach Markman's series of quick body drawings is a reminder that the artist gives herself: "Here I am, don't forget." In another series displayed on a home shelf, she sculpts objects and toys that take over the domestic space, and in the photograph "Nimrod" she embodies in her image an alternative rewrite of the myth of Nimrod; Michal Blair's works speak of the decomposition of existence into small moments and of the never-ending female transformation. Stages of life and development that usually come from a breach of boundaries within pain create a hole that never closes and forces us to contain it; Naomi Wilner explores the materials that make up femininity through colorful Photoshop paintings, which are often based on photography and are painted with clean graphic lines combined with textures influenced by primitive art; Anat Rosenson Ben-Hur presents a series of portraits of women whose hair sprouts wild ornamental plants; in the photograph "The Baby and the Child," Inbal Cohen Hamo scanned images from a guidebook for young mothers and created an image that contains the overflow she experienced as a mother. "White Torso" and "Black Torso" are two images that photograph a glue cast that Bena Starr made for her, embodying the wounded, powerless female body as it appears in objects and culture. "The Vitruvian Woman," an image that Cohen Hamo created together with the group, is a kind of mapping of the imperfect bodies of female pedartists, who create their own orders of magnitude and dimensions – a new scale
*Ped Art is a learning and creative group for women artists, focused on raising feminist awareness and activism in the field of art through visual tools.

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