Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Soltes, Ori Z.

Titel

Finding Home: The Transcultural Worlds of Siona Benjamin

Ist Teil von

• Feminist studies, 2012-09, Vol.38 (3), p.689-719

Ort / Verlag

College Park: Feminist Studies, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The figures are most often drawn from the Bible - either by way of the rabbinic exposition of the underlying meaning of Biblical texts known as Midrash, with its often phantasmagorical flights of fancy, or by way of her own midrash, or both.2 A second branch (really a more particularized branch of the Fereshteh branch) focuses on Lilith, the midrashic first wife of Adam, who was able to fly and was unwilling to be ground beneath her husband's dominating heel. Benjamin's art seeks to "dip into [her] own personal specifics and universalize, thus playing the role of an artist/activist," and uses imagery drawn from diverse traditions as instruments of mutual inclusion toward that end.19 In the image "Tikkun faObrn" a traditional Krishna/Kali-style figure dances on a stylized lotus that is also a burst of light, her multiple arms raised upward.