YEMANITE EDGE

A contemporary interpretation of a visual material culture

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Yemenite Edge is a material and visual study that offers a contemporary interpretation of traditional culture. It engages with the traditional Yemenite-Jewish design language, as manifested in twenty-first century Israel. The aim of the project was to distill the material, formal, and aesthetic essence of traditional objects into basic components such as color, sound, and movement. The project presents new interpretations of objects that preserve their relevance to contemporary society without stripping them of their traditional substance.

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Craft is founded on manual skills, and in the global industrial age offers a metaphorical meaning for humanity and a connection between the personal and the social spheres. This project aims to expand the notion of contemporary craft, blurring the boundaries between craft and design in professional discourse. Questions of time, place, and memory resonate in this visual study. The research characterizes the cultural and material essence of Yemenite-Jewish visual culture, in a bid to understand how the field of contemporary design can allow these values a new expression in the modern global world, where the meaning of place, time, and patience is ever-changing.

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Photo: Noam Ekhoiz
Model: Diana Schwartz

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