Sainte Anne Gallery

Enūma Elish

by Elisheva Revah

curated by Jemma Elliott-Israelson

10 — 25 September 2025

Elisheva Revah (b. 1991) lives and works between Tel Aviv and Paris. Raised in a spiritual artist household in the Judean Hills, her work merges ancient iconography with embodied ritual. Trained in contemporary dance, Revah’s practice moves between performance, sculpture, and mysticism—drawing on Jewish, Sufi, and Berber traditions. Revah participated in the group show I Confini dell’Alterità (Museo Ebraico, Venice Biennale, 2024). She holds an MA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and has held various exhibitions and residencies in Israel, Italy, France, and Czechoslovakia.

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Taking its name from the seven-tablet Babylonian creation myth, Enūma Elish unfolds across sculpture, video, engraving, and performance — summoning ancient mythologies into contemporary space. Revah’s practice fuses Mesopotamian myth, Kabbalistic symbolism, and feminist ritual in a bold and spiritual language of gesture and material. Her work is a meditation on divine femininity — not as abstraction, but as lineage and presence. Across stone, skin, and screen, Enūma Elish invites viewers to explore ancient and modern archetypes of goddesses that are not distant, but embodied.

The exhibition spans two floors:

Ground Floor: Stone Manifest — a sculptural sanctuary featuring seven engraved tablets, merging Kabbalistic glyphs with Mesopotamian iconography. Revah’s carvings echo votive reliefs and minimalist sculpture — think Noguchi, Ana Mendieta, Agnes Martin — but rooted in personal cosmology and ritual. Symbols like the snake of Lilith, the spiral of rebirth, and the double triangle of giving/receiving become vessels for mythic feminine energy. Centerpieces include SHEFA, featuring a 15th-century found stone, and MANIFESTO, a raw wood engraving featuring a manifesto by the artist on womanhood.

Upstairs: Goddesses of Now — a constellation of 22 short films, each showing a woman embodying a contemporary goddess archetype. Like moving tarot cards, the videos are stripped back, symbolic, and ritualistic. Suspended stones, nude figures, and Kabbalistic signs create a language of quiet power, recalling early video work by Joan Jonas or Mendieta’s earth-body actions. An accompanying Oracle Card set will be available in a limited edition of 50.

— Jemma Elliott-Israelson

Jemma Elliott-Israelson (b. 1994) is a Milan-based curator and founder of Israelson Art Advisory. She holds an BA in history of art and classics from McGill and an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and The Israel Museum and was Client and Business Development Coordinator at Christie’s before serving as Director of Curatorial Projects and Institutional Partnerships at Shifting Vision. Recent exhibitions include Future Relics (Palazzo Corsini del Prato, Florence, 2024), I Confini dell’Alterità (Museo Ebraico, Venice Biennale, 2024) and Milk & Cookies (Tube Culture Hall, Milan, 2025).

The artist Elisheva Revah in her studio, 2025

ZEHUT (Identity) by Elisheva Revah, 2025; stone engraving, stone, plaster, 62 x 50 x 7 cm

SHEFA (Abundance) by Elisheva Revah, 2025; stone engraving with 15th century fragment.

SHIN (2025) by Elisheva Revah; stone engraving with antique fragment, plaster, 62 x 50 x 7 cm

Goddesses of Now (2025) by Elisheva Revah; video art installation

Various works from the series ‘Goddesses of Now’

Manifesto (2025) by Elisheva Revah; wood engraving, found wood 150 x 101 cm

Portrait of the artist Elisheva Revah in her studio, 2025