Join us for an exclusive artists' tour of EVE'S EDEN with artists Julia Vogl and Gabriella Willenz!
Step into the Doug Adams Gallery and experience the Garden of Eden a new way – from Eve’s perspective. In EVE’S EDEN, Julia Vogl and Gabriella Willenz have created an innovative, immersive environment that allows visitors to explore this fundamental story that lies at the root of patriarchy. Take a tour through this interdisciplinary exhibition and leave with a sample of “unforbidden fruit.”
We meet Eve in the film “Eve’s Side,” with a script by Anita Diamant, author of international bestseller The Red Tent (1997) and multiple other works of both fiction and non-fiction. Eve, played by award-winning Palestinian-Israeli actress Mira Awad, tells us her side of the story of what really happened in the Garden of Eden. In a clever and heartfelt narrative, she challenges age-old stereotypes and pushes us to re-consider our own assumptions.
An innovative audio component allows visitors to hear about the Eden story from diverse voices and multiple perspectives, and another gives insight into Eve and Adam’s couples therapy sessions. There are several opportunities for community participation, including a green screen zone which allows Gallery visitors to become part of the story.
Julia Vogl is an American and British artist, known for public art installations that engage the community in shaping architectural space through visualizations of personal information and stories. She has received multiple awards from the American for the Arts Public Art in Review. She currently teaches fine art at the Winchester School of Art at Southampton University, UK.
Gabriella Willenz holds dual citizenship and lives and works between Israel and the U.S. Her background in theater and film allows her to create uncanny interventions and restaging, with a focus on deconstructing hegemonic structures such as nationalism, militarism, and patriarchy. She has been awarded multiple grants, prizes, and artist’s residencies.
EVE’S EDEN is supported in part by grants from the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK) and the Alameda County Arts Council, and with the assistance of Meyer Sound, Kala Art Institute, and Berkeley Student Cooperative.
The Doug Adams Gallery is the primary exhibition space for the Center for the Arts & Religion at the Graduate Theological Union.