"Mothers embracing children" • Unique solo exhibition • Artist Verd Grandir Fruchtman

The artist and painter Vared Grandir Fruchtman is presenting these days (May 2024) at the Technion Library in Neve Shanan in Haifa a unique solo exhibition called "Mothers Embracing Children", which features works with six women wrapped in implied scarves, embracing babies and children, symbolizing different types of mothers.

The artist and painter Vared Grandir Fruchtman is currently presenting a unique solo exhibition called "Mothers Hugging Children" at the Technion Library in Neve Shanan in Haifa. In the exhibition, which will be on display until the end of June (2024), works are presented in which six women appear wrapped in implied scarves, embracing babies and children, symbolizing different types of mothers. The artist's source of inspiration for the exhibition is a photo of Shiri Biebs hugging her two babies, wrapped in a scarf that symbolically protects her babies. This piece is called "Black Sky", and it screams the cry of the mothers who protected their children but did not succeed in the blackened sky.

Rose Grenadier Fruchtman:

In the days after the seven in October the pain was so great and I immediately started painting. This was my way of shouting my cry and protesting the pain and the horrors of the war, which day by day were revealed in their nakedness. The first piece 'Bleeding Femininity' was drawn following the image of the bleeding Naama Levy and symbolized the rape, captivity and loss of freedom of the young women who were robbed of their freedom and their bodies became derelict. I tied the work with a rope that symbolizes coercion and captivity. The painting cried out the cry of all women and the symbolic female blood. The second piece 'The Waiting Bride' is an acrylic work on canvas in the form of a colorful bride waiting for her beloved who will not return. A symbol of the cry of the many young women who are left without their future grooms and have not yet had time to marry them. In this work, a text from the song 'On the way to the pools' was incorporated, the words of Yoram Taharlev: 'And she knows he won't come back forever, and she still prays that he just forgot.' This piece expresses the longing and intense pain of young women who did not have time to marry their loved ones and some whose fate is still unknown. These two works were sent to a social exhibition of the Tomer Ben Horin association that promotes artists called 'Swords of Hope' curated by Shira Kochavi and displayed for two months with many other works by artists who responded to the horrific events from grief and loss to hope.

A little about the artist Grandir Fruchtman

Grandir Fruchtman is engaged in group facilitation, mental training in an approach that combines NLP, Gestalt,
Guided imagination, organizational consulting, mediation and relationships. She develops a model called "Finding the Inner Diamond" and is the author of the book "Finding the Inner Diamond". She is the mother of 13.5-year-old twins and is married to an educator named Shai Fruchtman. She combines kicking human art, therapy and guidance work with the voice of inspiring people, who succeeded in crises and left a mark in various fields of culture, education, society and current events, every week in her podcast "Polish the inner diamond".

Grandir Fruchtman:

I have always had an artistic and caring animal inside of me, and today I combine the two through a unique style called SOUL PAINTING that combines my inclination towards art with my ability to observe and understand people's souls. I would like this exhibition to travel the world and remind the world of the women, mothers and children who became victims of the ongoing conflict between the Palestinian people, whose ambassadors are a cruel terrorist organization, and the Jewish people living in Israel. I hope the shock will lead to talks towards peace between the nations.