Out of Exhibition – Siona Benjamin (b.1960)
Sephiroth Moonlight Rhapsody, 2019
Mixed media
Museum Collection
Must Know
Siona Benjamin is a painter originally from Bombay, now living in the United States. her work reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. In her paintings she combines imagery inspired by Indian miniature paintings, Sephardic icons, biblical subject matter and gender. Kabbalah deals with the wisdom of the hidden and does not accept reality as it is. According to Kabbalistic scholars, the reality of life is comprised of outer garments that conceal the inner essences of our world. Siona describes the work:
“The tree of life is the recycling of life, water and air as inspired by the ancient sephiroth tree which is about the resurgence of life. Water flows and skies merge into many colors. The music cannot sit still and must levitate into the forest of our deep consciousness. The cycle of life, everlasting and continuous through connections, generations and our eternal souls. My blue face waits for promised inspiration to seep within
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This piece will be exhibited on the 2nd floor in the area of “Faith Thought and Creativity” in one of two vitrines in front of the texts discussing the Sefirot (Emanations) and Parzufim (faces), kabbalistic concepts representing the divine structure linking the worlds of divinity with the human material and finite world
