In the exhibition "Holding On" sixteen contemporary artists present photographic, video and mixed media works based on photography. All of the works on display in the exhibition were created in the last three years, and all deal with the almost primal basis of existence: home, body and family.

The title of the exhibition is taken from one of the works on display, Shonit Falko Zaritsky's work called "Holding On". Like this work, which consists of a photograph that combines objects and embroidery, many of the works seek to break through the boundaries of the photographic medium into the worlds of craft and handcraft.

The starting point of all the artists exhibiting is photography, whether direct photography or archival photographs, and quite a few of them incorporate manual operations such as embroidery, sewing, cutting and gluing into the creative process - laborious crafts that were considered "feminine" and "domestic".

The images displayed are duplicated, dismembered and disrupted, yet wrapped in a strict and clean aesthetic, as if seeking to contain what is uncontrollable, to contain the pain alongside compassion, the disturbance alongside acceptance.

The technique in which many of the works in the exhibition were created adds an additional layer of meaning to the works, and illuminates processes and efforts that run like a thread between the works on display. Women who do everything in their power to hold on to their changing, disappointing, betraying bodies; to their home, with its various meanings, the private and the general, the political; and to the memory of family, of roots, and of identity.