After the Tribes – Beverly Barkat

Beverly Barkat in her studio working on *After the Tribes*.
Movie still from the movie by Tor Ben Mayor.

*After the Tribes,* detail.
Movie still from the movie by Tor Ben Mayor.

Beverly Barkat’s studio in Jerusalem when creating *After the Tribes*.
Movie still from the movie by Tor Ben Mayor.

*After the Tribes,* installation view on the beach.
Movie still from the movie by Tor Ben Mayor.

*After the Tribes* installation, Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Vartivar Jaklian.

*After the Tribes,* detail.
Photo credits Vartivar Jaklian.

Beverly Barkat at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Raffaella Frascarelli Sciaretta of NOMAS foundation; Beverly Barkat; Giorgia Calò, curator at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Rafella Frascarelli Sciaretta of NOMAS foundation; Nir Barkat; Beverly Barkat; Amir Shani; Ofer Sachs, Israeli Ambassador in Italy and Giorgia Calò, curator at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Matilde Amaturo, Director Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi; Edith Gabrielli, Director Polo Museale del Lazio; Ofer Sachs, Israeli Ambassador in Italy and Beverly Barkat at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Uroš Ilić; Mia Dora Prvan, Director of Projects at Barkat Studio; Micha Weidmann from Weidmann Studio London; Ana Jelnikar; Beverly Barkat; Nir Barkat; Krešimir Želić at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Eldad Golan, Cultural Attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Italy; Beverly Barkat; Mia Dora Prvan, Director of Projects at Barkat Studio; Giorgia Calò, curator at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

Micha Weidmann of Weidmann Studio London; Mia Dora Prvan, Director of Projects at Barkat Studio; Giorgia Calò, curator; Vartivar Jaklian; Ana Jelnikar at the opening of *After the Tribes,* Museo Boncampagni Ludovisi, Rome.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

*After the Tribes* opening, garden view.
Photo credits Giorgio Benni.

After the Tribes
Venue: Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome
Dates: October 11th – December 31st, 2018

After the Tribes was a site-specific installation structured around twelve circular paintings on semitransparent PVC that enliven an imposing four-meter-high metal structure. The work relates the story of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who descended directly from the sons of Jacob to form the Jewish people. Along with research into cartographic materials at the National Library of Israel, Beverly Barkat based her work on these historical studies, concentrating in particular on color and material to conjure a complex universe of symbols and references. The artist’s color palette derives from soil collected from the lands where each of the twelve tribes dwelt, from the natural elements gathered from the earth and from the gemstone representing them, associated with their occupations. All these elements, ground up and then mixed with acrylic paints and pastel pigments, give rise to each individual work, which is therefore unique and unrepeatable.

Beverly Barkat’s work therefore presents itself as a large abstract, three-dimensional trompe-l’œil that dialogues with the mural paintings of the tree-lined allées and gardens of Villa Ludovisia, painted on the walls of the Salone delle Vedute, where the installation is located. After the Tribes projects the spectator into another dimension, in which space is annulled and we find ourselves in an imaginary place, one that evokes a story reaching back across the millennia.

Dr Giorgia Calò
Curator