FRAMED #59 Lily Henley & Duncan Wickel / Exhibition "Parallax" Roi Alter & Leila Rose Bari

MUSIC – Lily Henley & Duncan Wickel

Lily is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed her original songs around the world. Combining elements of Sephardi and American folk music, Lily’s music is deeply original, with lyrics sung in English, Judeo-Spanish, and Hebrew. She utilizes her singular talent and vast knowledge of folk music from across the globe to give audiences a profound experience, one that feels both rooted in tradition but always striving forward.

Duncan is an accomplished bowed-string instrumentalist who has performed internationally at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Grand Ole’ Opry, and the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt. He can also be seen on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series with Rising Appalachia. Whether playing violin or cello, classical or folk, Duncan always merges his deep technique with a moving soulfulness.

We cannot wait for this special evening of music, collaboration, and community.

ART EXHIBITION – „Parallax“ Roi Alter & Leila Rose Bari

Roi Alter (b. 1980, Jaffa), artist (MFA – Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam; BFA – Bezalel Academy for art and design, Jerusalem), art-therapist (MAAT – The Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv), and translator. Currently lives and works in Jaffa. As an artist, Alter explores the seams and fringes of society and civility through the prism of contemporary material culture and the economy of waste, and while taking into account the imminent human failure and a pending apocalyptic future. Alter’s work has been exhibited throughout Europe and in Israel.

Leila Rose Bari strives to produce an intimate interaction. I take inspiration from the dynamics of such conversations with close friends, where one can touch on the most painful subjects and then burst out laughing at them, where nothing is taboo. I spread over many media and produce works at a fast pace and in large quantities.  Shifting between the variety of media is for me like a possessed little girl wallowing in an amusement park, being under the spell of insatiable craving to swallow everything; exercising her freedom, or rather trying to fill a bottomless hole. It is a place where the only certainty is irrationality. A surreal place. My creative process is playful, intuitive, and seemingly arbitrary. I move between intuition and conceptual polish, between the popular and the esoteric. I draw materials from the narrative of my life, where there is always a relationship with a missing factor. I juxtapose bits of my own identity with symbols and stories containing a cultural and historical charge. I strip them from their skin, mix them, and turn them into a testimony of my being an absorbing, creative human being, who just happens to be alive in a certain moment in time.