# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B1eitpsBwkl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044410-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-08-22T19:00:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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“Open Sessions 2018-20: What's Love Got to Do with It?" on-view through Sept 15 is the full-museum exhibition of the third cycle of The Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program -  a two-year artists’ residency with thirty one participants from around the world. Featuring new work by Open Session artists, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” will include works on paper, video, multimedia and sculpture, as well as installation, all of which place contemporary drawing at the center of an evolving conversation about love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Keren Benbenisty’s practice examines our relationship to contemporaneity by revealing both the ancient and modern constructs hidden beneath the surface. Her series of drawings Land of Blue Oranges is made on paper used by a citrus packer in Israel to wrap Jaffa oranges (Benbenisty inherited the paper from her grandmother). The Jewish immigrants who settled in Palestine in the early twentieth century turned Jaffa oranges—a variety cultivated by Palestinian farmers in the mid-nineteenth century—into one of the country’s primary exports. An emblem of the lost Arab-Palestinian land, Jaffa oranges became one of the quintessential symbols of the nascent State of Israel. In her drawings, Benbenisty juxtaposes the use of blue-inked orange peel printing stamps with English translations of the names of disappeared Arab villages excerpted from Edward Henry Palmer’s Survey of Western Palestine (1881) to reference the history of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Open Sessions is a two-year program which provides opportunities for selected artists to contextualize work and ideas through exhibitions, public programs, and critical dialogue, organized by Rosario Güiraldes and Lisa Sigal, Open Sessions Curators.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#OpenSessions #drawingcenter #KerenBenbenisty keren_benbenisty rsoairo lisasigal ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Keren Benbenisty, From the series Land of the Blue Oranges, 2018. Blue ink on original Jaffa Oranges wrapping paper. Courtesy of the artist.

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