The common thread running through the exhibition is each artist’s special attraction to linear movement and its centrality in their works. Lines play an important role in all cultures, because they contribute to understanding, interpretation, and representation of reality. Humans, regardless of their affinity for art, consciously or unconsciously create lines. As walking and talking creatures who use hand gestures, humans create lines in space and time everywhere and continuously. A line can be material, like a thread, or immaterial – geometric or imaginary – like longitude and latitude lines and the horizon. A line can be a sequence of points, a product of thought, or an element associated with physical action, as in calligraphy and dance, for example.
Elements of lines, traces, and threads run between the works displayed in the exhibition and weave a multi-layered fabric of meanings. The exhibition is divided into metaphors of lines and threads – Timeline; Horizon; Line, Thread and Identity, “Story Line”, Thread of Memory, Line of Separation / Line of Erasure, Body Lines and Lifeline. Throughout the exhibition, the central idea of a dialogue between line and thread is maintained – the line separates from the foundation and becomes a thread, and the thread applied to a surface becomes a line; a thread is represented by a line, and a line is represented by a thread.