Dalit : Woman of Art & Citizen of World

Israeli-French curator Dalit Lahav-Durst is a woman of many talents, tackling her different roles with an ease, worthy of genuine admiration. A multilingual specialist, between working with a broad range of artists, she finds time to co-author 15 books until now and counting, bringing her cross-cultural experiences into the literary translations of Portuguese-Brazilian literature mainly.

Born in Sao Paolo, she later studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris, where her career started. Lahav-Durst has worked with painters, sculptors and photographers for over twenty years in Europe and Israel, facilitating various cultural exchanges.

Tatjana Bergelt, Raffi Kaiser, Nadav Lipchitz and Ofer Lellouch are among many artists she worked with.

During the past four years, Dalit has been giving the European audience an opportunity to rediscover one of the greatest French artists, curating multiple exhibitions dedicated to the sculpture of Edgar Degas.

Edgar Degas, The Little Fourteen-year-old Dancer

Several cities got the chance to host the “Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion” exhibition, including Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, and now Dalit Lahav-Durst brought it to Asia for the first time. Le French may festival is in full swing until June, and as a special highlight MGM Art Space in Macau presents an exhibition of Degas’s sculptures never before been shown in Asia.

Dalit L.Durst, currently a chief curator of M.T Abraham Foundation for the Visual Arts, brought to Macau this iconic exhibition, unveiling the unknown edge of a great French artist.