Recent Books and
Academic Publications
The Ball, Tailor-Made Escapism | Exhibition Book
Curator and Catalog Editor: Ya’ara Keydar
Design: Re-Levant Studio
250 pages, hardcover
“The Ball” Design Museum Holon’s summer exhibition for 2021, explores the relations between fashion, dreams, fairy tales and escapism. The catalogue presents the story of the exhibition in 250 color pages, which forge a connection between the history of balls in the west and of the fashions designed for them, and the creations of leading local fashion designers.
The catalogue documents more than 120 contemporary and historical "haute- couture" gowns made of luxurious materials, as well as surprising everyday materials. It also features 50 accessories, 22 models of Cinderella slippers printed in 3D, a gown composed of optic fibers, 6,500 macaroons, and 17 hats inspired by desserts - all created especially for the exhibition.
The exhibition book enables visitors to preserve their experience of the exhibition, while offering a close-up look at the creative dialogues that it celebrates: those between the festive and the everyday, as well as between the fantastic and the real. This book also offers a reflection on the role of fashion in everyday life, on the desire for escapism and larger-than-life experiences, and on dreams, riches and happiness.
Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz | Exhibition Book
Curator and Catalog Editor: Ya’ara Keydar
Design: Kobi Franco and Zohar Koren
240 pages, paperback
The book, published with the opening of the exhibition, includes six original articles that were written especially for the Exhibition, and gathers pictures of Ronit Elkabetz from her cinematic career as an actress, screenwriter and director, along with personal photographs, professional images and modeling images – from the early 1990’s and throughout her career.
The articles that appear in the catalogue in Hebrew and English deal with cinema, fashion design, gender, feminism, politics and other subjects by looking at Elkabetz’s extensive work and career. Included in the book are “Dreams from Ronit Elkabetz’s Wardrobe” an essay by curator Ya’ara Keydar, a personal essay by the exhibition artistic director Shlomi Elkabetz and an artistic biography by Yigal Nizri, as well as essays by Zohar Elmakias, Shula Keshet and Raya Morag.
A Walk of Art: Visionary Shoes | Exhibition Book
Curator and Catalog Editor: Ya’ara Keydar
Design: Studio Re-Levant
Executive Director: Udi Urman, Friends of Bezalel
160 pages, hardcover
“The Ball” Design Museum Holon’s summer exhibition for 2021, explores the relations between fashion, dreams, fairy tales and escapism.
The catalogue presents the story of the exhibition in 250 color pages, which forge a connection between the history of balls in the west and of the fashions designed for them, and the creations of leading local fashion designers.
The catalogue documents more than 120 contemporary and historical "haute- couture" gowns made of luxurious materials, as well as surprising everyday materials. It also features 50 accessories, 22 models of Cinderella slippers printed in 3D, a gown composed of optic fibers, 6,500 macaroons, and 17 hats inspired by desserts - all created especially for the exhibition.
The exhibition book enables visitors to preserve their experience of the exhibition, while offering a close-up look at the creative dialogues that it celebrates: those between the festive and the everyday, as well as between the fantastic and the real. This book also offers a reflection on the role of fashion in everyday life, on the desire for escapism and larger-than-life experiences, and on dreams, riches and happiness.
