The Past Versus an Unknown Future: On Intergenerational Transmission Between Mothers and Daughters in Druze Art

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, there has been a proliferation of talented and innovative women artists from the Arab sector in Israel, and particularly the Druze community. Their work allows them to be heard both as women in the Israeli art scene and as members of a minority group. It engages with social and cultural conflicts, while presenting critical perspectives on the patriarchal Arab society in which they live and on the dominant Jewish majority. They explore the intersection between Western and Oriental cultures and between patriarchal and pluralistic societies, attempting to create a new language that reflects their experiences as women navigating a "matrix of domination" while asserting their identities as individual artists. Despite the significant presence of Druze artists in the local art scene and their vital role as women in a changing society, there is a scarcity of scholarly texts addressing their contribution, with most discussions relegated to exhibition catalogs.