Mazal U'bracha/Lack and Blessing, group exhibition, Beit Hatfutsot Museum, Tel Aviv, 2014. Academic research: Maayan Roichman,
curator: Carmit Blumensohn

Excerpts from the text by Carmit Blumensohn
 

“(…)By covering the column towering in the exhibition space with photographed objects, Nurit Yarden recreates the aesthetics of the heaped display stands from the souvenir shops on Allenby and Ben Yehuda streets at Beit Hatfutsot.

 

(…) Her work offers an ironic look at excessively commercialized objects of faith, luck, and blessing whose transformation into a commodity has emptied them of meaning, leaving only a façade(…)”