T21

The Gottesman Etching Center , Hamekarer Gallery / Curator Iris Pshadezki

Etching, Screen print, Gold foil on paper, 2021

T21 is a series of prints created from my personal experience as a mother of a child with Down Syndrome. Twenty one portraits of people with ‘Trisomy 21’, known as ‘Down Syndrome’, placing myself and my son in the heart of the series.
In the public space around me there are no disabled individuals. I look at this homogenic society and make an amendment: adding the diversity that is missing from my habitus, hoping that by this correction the mindset and reality around me will change.
It is common to generalise T21 carriers. Even the “positive” sayings disregards them as having an individual identity. By adding golden frames and halos I reference icons, emphasising this dissonance between a tradition of attributions and reality itself.
I try to make a radical, present action that will show the true colours of a society that glorifies the other as ‘a saint’ at the same time it effaces him completely.