Raida Adon

Raida Adon was born 10 November 1972 in Acre, to a Jewish father and a Muslim mother. Her works emerge from her complex biography, addressing conflicted nations and the relationship between two interrelated societies. Adon’s practice expresses a duality and deals with her split identity, which shifts between polyvalent spheres of influence that are intertwined yet preserve power relationships and domination.

Recurring in Adon’s oeuvre is the image of the woman, as a metaphor for the post-1948 geographic space of Israel/Palestine. The woman/ghost evoked by the empty, hanging garments of Woman without a Home is a reference to the present-absentee, who, remaining on land of which she has been divested, is a key witness to the nation-shaping process. This work depicts the artist’s own quest for rootedness, while alluding to refugee crises around the world.

Adon is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

She has shown work and performances at museums as well as theatre festivals around the world.

Selected exhibitions include:

2014: “Woman Without a Home”, Tel-Aviv Museum
2014: “Woman Without a Home”, performance Tokyo Art Museum
2013: “body recalled”, Mana Contemporary, NJ
2013: “Beyond the Walls”, Nahum Gutman’s Museum
2012: “Fasatine”, La Villa Emerage, Paris
2010: “Fasatine”, Kerner Park Art Gallery, Berlin
2010: “House”, “The right to protest”, Museum on the Seam
2010: “Beyond the Walls”, Art Gallery, Tova Osman
 

Adon has won two Minister of Education Awards from Israel – one as a Palestinian artist and the other as an Israeli artist.