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Azrieli Gallery:
A Year in the Life

of a Curator

The Azrieli Gallery, located on the ground floor of HAC’s Helmsley Interdisciplinary Science
Center Building, holds 3-4 significant exhibitions a year, a full-time job that entails months of
intensive work including research, planning, outreach, and installation for each exhibition. Tali
Kayam, M.A., the Gallery’s second curator, has served in this position during the past year.

“The Azrieli Gallery plays a unique role for HAC’s Departments of Inclusive Industrial Design and
Photographic Communication. Having said that, I believe it can showcase all of HAC’s academic
departments,” says Tali. “We invite faculty to propose topics of interest that lend themselves to
visual representation.”

Photo: Daniel Hanoch Tali’s first exhibition as Curator was Fabrica-
tions, which opened on June 9, 2021. Viewers
were invited to explore the encrypted pro-
cesses of creation and the illusionary aspects of
materiality through various textiles and hand-
crafted exhibits. Common themes emerged
from the creations, such as tradition, immigra-
tion, and consumption, and the debatable posi-
tion of textile arts in the creative hierarchy.

‘’The Gallery’s strategic location invites people
to walk in from the street, and the students
themselves are constantly exposed to the ex-
hibits,” explains Tali. ‘’This particular exhibi-
tion stirred a public debate from some of our
religious students,” she recalls, “as a result of
which we had a constructive dialogue.”

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