From the “Conversion” Project

Raida Adon’s work, Rebirth, is centered on a kind of baptism ceremony experienced by the artist. Christianity sees baptism as a cleansing of the subject from the original sin, a symbol of rebirth. The work draws attention to the aesthetic elements tied in to conversion, so imminent to the essence of a ceremony, as the shift from the space of actuality to that of symbolic action, while also pointing out the obsessive attention to the body as the basis of this transition.