Fifty women of all ages, careerists, successful, strong, aspiring, assertive, that have a common denominator: all of them influence the cultural life in Israel in one way or another. Each image reveals many faces, which are unfamiliar to viewers. The exhibition presents the story of 200 exciting and intimate pictures in a bathtub full of water. Each photograph has 4 sets that reflect 4 different profiles.

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Despite the seemingly intimate situation, there is no attempt to create intimacy and no sense of sexuality. Gabriely, makes great use of aesthetics here. In this period when each photographer takes the freedom to document the complexity of the other, it is possible to see here, a rare sincerity to turn every photographed into a star in the Victorian bathtub.

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One lifetime cannot contain the variety of identities of each woman. All the women photographed in the exhibition live 'double and multiple lives' in the philosophical sense. They do not hide any side from anyone, but they show other faces that are expressed, in different aspects of their lives. At home, at work, in the family, at night, in the day, alone and in society and so on.

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Gabriely with precision and sensitivity reflects the broad range that life offers us. The role of the bathtub in the photographs, is to serve as the place where a person comes, at the end of one side of her life, and reboots the 'next' side with himself.

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Immersion in water has always been a purifying and calming act. The use of the bathtub is not a sign of the tense modern world. In the past, only aristocrats enjoyed the time in the tub. Today, the pace of life seems to send us to a quick shower. The women photographed yearns to pause and relax from their occupations during the day and the night. This purity and calmness has a great influence on mental health, which has a pious connection to our physical condition.

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In the space of time, we are unable to live the life that seemed to us ideal and woven into our dreams. 

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Cancer fits into this drama another angle of vision on life. The disease blocks the continuum of our lives on the one hand, while sharpening the significance and importance of the real time we choose to live in, on the other hand. Because of this characteristic and because it became a common denominator for everyone today in our world, the choice was made to contribute the exhibition's profits to the fight against cancer. This is because cancer sharpens the idea that we live only once, and these women want to pick as much time as possible, and as many opportunities as possible, because they want to do everything.

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December 4, 2014