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The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is pleased to present Noa Yekutieli: No Longer 鈥� Not Yet, the artist鈥檚 first solo exhibition in New York, curated by Jen茅e-Daria Strand. Using wood, fabric, and her signature manual paper-cutting technique, Yekutieli creates striking renderings of real and imagined scenes, densely populated with sprawling flora, repeating patterns, and destroyed landscapes. For this exhibition, the artist transforms the gallery into a series of stage-like installations that relate to memory and the notion of belonging. The works reflect on cycles of destruction, loss, and trauma, themes that Yekutieli frequently contemplated while growing up in Israel and that are even more palpable for her today. In the face of the ongoing conflict and grim everyday realities of life in Israel and Palestine, she looks for, in her words, 鈥渄ifferent languages and spaces of reflection to shift patterns of violence and trauma, and oppose the idea of a singular narrative.鈥�

Yekutieli鈥檚 family history sits at the fore of her work. In her intricate collage-like pieces, she incorporates formal strategies, craft traditions such as woodworking and sewing, and cultural symbolism inspired by her American-Japanese-Israeli heritage. Her approach to paper-cutting, for instance, is influenced by the Japanese concept of using negative space as a compositional element. Drawing on rediscovered photographs of her family, Yekutieli questions what is lost and what is left as a result of her experiences with immigration and assimilation. She embraces a state of between-ness鈥攃ontending with the complexities of her multicultural intersectional identity. In each installation, she juxtaposes polarities of positive and negative, hope and reality, brutality and beauty, and destruction and growth. Much like deconstructed tapestries, thin lines of connection spill across the landscape鈥檚 chasms, creating a tension between fragility and strength. Stretching the paper compositions across the gallery鈥檚 walls, Yekutieli tests the limits of the material and creates鈥攊n scale and technique鈥攕ome of her most ambitious works to date.