In her new exhibition, Rise, Etti Abergel formulates a physical and emotional etude that stretches across both gallery spaces. Through various iterations of the act of rising from the ground, she touches upon a state of personal grief and pain, which is simultaneously abstract and physical. Intertwined within the gallery spaces, various manifestations of elevation appear alongside fracture, collapse, and downfall.

For the first time, Abergel's works do not merely cling to the frame but rather originate and stem from it, as if the artist herself is seeking a grasp on the grid's stability during the genesis of a new world. Tactile forces, harboring ars-poetic objects within them, create tangles, knots, and bundles that oscillate between construction and deconstruction. The wooden frames embracing them offer support and organization through various grids, allowing them to suspend in mid-air. Abstract images—part drawing, part assemblage—emerge and spill from the frames, representing fragments of an entirely missing world.

The spatial installation proposes material solutions to physical and psychological tension: various railings, cables, and climbing ropes suspended in the corners of the room offer a metaphorical possibility of elevation. This serves as an intermediate stage between two motions: an upward ascent triumphing over gravity, juxtaposed against falling and collapsing. Grip handles attached to whitened drawings blend into the drawn lines and the scratch marks etched into them. Vertical elements intersect with horizontal ones in the space, generating a new fabric and order that stands in contrast to the spillover of chaos.

Characteristic of Abergel’s practice, the exhibition rests upon a system of contrasts and tensions. It shifts between shades of black and white, fusing earthly elements with what Abergel terms "galactic elements"—resembling stars that have fallen to earth and shattered. Alongside geometric imagery evoking fragmented stars, glossy, light-capturing elements accumulate, bringing to mind celestial debris of luminous bodies; glimmers of light that illuminate the dark galaxies converging in the room.