"You will go from land to land / Be the bleeding heart of the world/
Its screaming mouth / Be the living heart of the world / Its poetry."

Ruth Dorrit Yacoby is an internationally recognized artist, painter, and poet, whose works have been featured in over 67 solo exhibitions worldwide; they have been shown in major galleries and museums in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Mexico City, Lima, and Buenos Aires, as well as at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Israel Museum. In 2000
the Vatican in Rome. In 2008, a permanent exhibition of her works was inaugurated at the Center for Art and Creation – The Woman of the Thousand Voices. This exhibition is housed in a former industrial hangar in Arad, on the outskirts of the Judean Desert, along the road leading to the Dead Sea. The exhibition is accompanied by the film The Woman of the Thousand Voices.
The Center for Art and Creation draws visitors from throughout Israel and the world. Since its foundation it has been visited by thousands of visitors.

The story of the project is the story of the primeval journey undertaken by the Shekhina, the Great Mother, the Matriarch Rachel – a journey of wandering and exile, which ends with redemption, healing, and a promise of solace. Every mother is a messenger, the mother of all mothers, a queen mother.
Within a space of the exhibition the viewer undergoes a personal transformation as he journeys with the voices of the lost child of history, from the land of the dead and of oblivion to the land of life, the source and origin, the time of all beginnings, the genesis of life, joy, color, and poetry born of the heart, at the root of the soul. … Read More