February 2025 – Space 204 welcomes Yael Vishnizki Levi and work inspired by motherhood, and the marks of childhood
The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University welcomes Yael Vishnizki Levi to Space 204 in February 2025 with nævus (Birthmarks) – a multimedia project and exhibition shaped around the first stages of motherhood and explores the relationship between being an artist, a mother, and a educator.
In the past year, Yael Vishnizki Levi has been exploring the first footprints her child has made in this world. The product of automatic and impulsive actions, these footprints seem to originate in an unlocalized realm in which creative energies are not dictated by artistic concepts and agendas. They are a production of an intimate choreography contained by our domestic space and routines of caregiving resonating with artistic references. The banging of metal spoons on the dining table makes inscriptions in the wood and echoes noisily in the room. Levi began documenting them, reflecting on the poetics and possible mediums of this process. These “birthmarks” have marked an interweaving of motherhood and artist practice.
Exhibition Details:
Dates: February 13 – March 19, 2025
Reception: Feburayr 13, 2025, 3pm to 5pm, Room 204
Venue: Space 204, EBI Studio Arts Center, 1204 25th Avenue South, Nashville, Tn.
Contact: (email) artdept@vanderbilt.edu; (instagram) @vanderbilt.art
Gallery Hours: Mondays thru Fridays 10am to 4pm