Tamara Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe – GOLEMET (Epigenetika)

Golemet unfolds as a collective articulation by Jewish women responding to the reactivation of historically conditioned fear following the events of 7 October 2023 and the subsequent rise of antisemitism across Europe and beyond. Rather than producing new narratives of victimhood, the project focuses on how inherited memory resurfaces in the present: in bodily reactions, in affect, in the urgent need for connection, care, and mutual recognition.

At the core of the exhibition is a manifesto and a set of shared questions developed collectively as part of the artistic process. These texts function not as explanatory tools, but as performative elements—voices emerging “from the depths,” articulating what often remains unspoken in public discourse. Testimonies by Czech and Slovak Jewish women reflect experiences of growing isolation and symbolic exclusion within parts of feminist, activist, academic, and Queer environments after October 2023, revealing fractures in spaces that previously claimed solidarity.

The figure of Goleme– a female reinterpretation of the Prague Golem – is conceived as an inanimate shell created with the help of artificial intelligence, into which real testimonies of Czech and Slovak Jewish women are embedded. In this way, human emotions and transgenerational trauma are brought into something non-living, functioning here as a contemporary symbol of protection, resilience, and collective intelligence shaped by inherited memory. The project draws on Jewish mysticism, practical Kabbalah, and the symbolic logic of protection contained in the Golem legend, and places Golemet in a space between artificial intelligence, epigenetic research, and prayer—between unconscious processes and conscious articulation.

The exhibition also engages with the history of visual technologies—from the camera obscura and early optical devices to today’s algorithmic image economies—asking how fear, visibility, and empathy are mediated in the age of social media. What forms of protection are possible when narratives circulate faster than understanding? What does care look like in an environment shaped by polarized optics?

Golemet does not seek to rank suffering or offer moral hierarchies. Instead, it creates a space for listening, embodiment, and ethical attention. It invites viewers to consider how inherited trauma can be transformed into collective strength, how memory can become connective rather than isolating, and how voices that are often unwelcome might still find a place to surface—together.

The exhibition was organized with the support of the Bubny Center for Memory and Dialogue.

Bios

MgA Tamara Moyzes, PhD is a politically engaged artist, curator, and researcher based in Prague, Czech Republic. She completed her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2025). Her practice engages identity politics, including gender, racism, Anti-Romani sentiment, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, discrimination against ethnic minorities, nationalism, religious conflicts, and Orientalism. She is committed to artistic activism and approaches art as a form of protest that can expose social conditions through direct interventions. Her work often draws on community-based methods, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. By using strategies that make lived experience visible and legible, she foregrounds social injustice. Shaped by her plural minority background and lived experience across Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Israel, she works from the perspective of intersecting minority positions.

MgA Shlomi Yaffe (b. 1973, Tel Aviv) is an artist based in Prague. He holds an MgA degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Brno University of Technology, and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His work engages social and political questions related to pseudo-scientific ideas of race and the body, shaped by myth, assumption, and ideology. He is a co-founder of Artivist Lab and is currently working on a long-term project titled Lactism and Golemet.

Info

Artists | Tamara Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe
Curator | Světlana Malina 
Duration | 22 April – 11 June April 2026
Opening | 21 April 2026, 6 PM
Venue | Fotograf Zone Gallery, video room
Opening hours | Mon – Thu, 1 PM – 7 PM