Family Meal
Nurit Yarden
2007
Nurit Yarden offers a generous, intimate gift: “six gourmet meals from the recipe box inherited from my mother.” But rather than going into the kitchen, tying an apron around her waist and continuing the glorious tradition, Yarden chose to put this recipes of female knowledge and good taste into an artist’s book mold, spreading out on each page layers of texts, images and words. At the bottom of the “pot” she places a word—a title—whose function resembles that of the pea under the mattresses on which the princess slept.
—Text by Tali Tamir
- Design: Studio ZE
- Editing: Nurit Yarden
- Texts: Tali Tamir, Shuka Glotman
- Translation: Einat Adi
- Language editing: Einat Adi
- Copies: 1000
- Pages: 121
- Type of binding: Hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 28X20
- Reproductions: (Scanning) Ofek Ltd
- Printing: Kal
- Binding: Kal
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Am Oved Publishers Ltd and Xargol Books Ltd.
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Supported by: Galia and Sheer Roichman
- ISBN: 9789551319716
Nurit Yarden, born in 1959, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Yarden has a BFA from the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. In her works, she combines direct photography with staged photography and deals with the tension between private and public spaces through visual, social, and political symbols. She recently had the solo exhibition: Sojourn - Katamonim at the New Gallery Artist's Studios Teddy in Jerusalem