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Accompanying the Multidisciplinary Grid 2020 international conference taking place at HIT, the exhibition 'GRIDDED FABRIC(ATIONS)' is being presented in a 3D digital format at the Institution's Vitrina Gallery. The (virtual) gallery's space provides a template for multivocal, multifaceted and multiscaled expressions of gridded imaginaries, reflecting the personalized views of the eighteen participating artists.

In their challenging interpretations of the all-encompassing, elusive and abstract term of 'the grid,' the artworks are made of a rich and an almost unexpected conjuncture of materials and mediums. They embody – each in itself as well as their collective art-scape – a processual dimension of searching, of querying, and of combining multidisciplinary methodologies through the creation process.

By thus, the artworks materialize and validate the classical statement of the art theorist Rosalind Krauss, that "it is safe to say that no form within the whole of modern aesthetic production has sustained itself so relentlessly while at the same time being so impervious to change." They also operate beyond this statement, by constituting ‘networks’ or infrastructures that are composed of circulating references, immutable mobiles and hybrid assemblages of our current life in a globalizing world.

The visitor is therefore invited to mediate between the micro-cosmos of the gallery and an associative, fabricated macro-cosmos that encompass both immobility and movement, regularity and continuity, multiplicity and repetition, difference and uniformity. But more than producing any atmosphere of binarism, we believe that a wander at the gallery's space would tie together these qualitative dimensions of The Grid in a complimentary way, leaving an ever incomplete, curious impression.

Liora Bigon
Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, HIT

Exhibition team:
Vitrina Gallery's Head: Prof. Hanan Kaminski
Gallery's manager: Orna Gattegno
Curatorship and production: Smadar Tsook and Ofer Getz

in cooperation with the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at HIT and the Multidisciplinary Grid 2020 international conference