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Epilogue


Overtones: Sound and Art (2026)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Curator: Talia Amar
Musical production and performance: Avshalom Hasfari

  
“Epiogue” (2026) 
Sound installation: speakers, white shirts, metal stands, 4:34 mins

“Epilogue” is a sound installation composed of five speakers dressed in white button-up shirts, connected to one another and placed on stands, creating the appearance of an organized human-like group. Holding hands, the speakers perform “A Song for Peace” (“Shir LaShalom”), written by Yaakov Rotblit and composed by Yair Rosenblum.

The performance of the song is reduced to a repetition of a single line “Let the sun rise” rather than the full composition. This repetition creates a loop, a sense of an opening that never develops into a complete progression or resolution.

“A Song for Peace” was written as a call for peace, reconciliation, and an end to violence. In Israel, the song became a powerful cultural and political symbol of hope, while also carrying the weight of a painful contradiction between the aspiration for peace and the violent reality in which it is repeatedly invoked.

In “Epilogue,” the decision to remain only with the opening line emphasizes both the promise of hope and its fragility — as if hope is suspended at its very beginning, unable to fully unfold. The speakers, as technological bodies dressed and connected to one another, create the image of a unified choir that nevertheless remains unable to move forward.

Installation views by Elie Posner

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Tailoring: Elena Barash
The work includes the musical piece Song for Peace;
composer: Yair Rozenblum,
lyrics: Yaakov “Yankele” Rotblit
Rights management for Yair Rozenblum – Tson Barzel Music Ltd.
Rights management for Yaakov Rotblit – Hadar Geller
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