Survival Episode
Solo Exhibition (2022)
Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem
The exhibition "Survival Episode" draws tentative outlines, subtle intersections between memories, movie scenes, historical events and government corridors, seeking to touch on the elusive concept of 'Israeli masculinity'. Through dealing with farewells and initiation ceremonies the five works in the exhibition seek to examine the intermediate space between the personal and the collective memory.
Button-up shirt, wooden hanger, video, mobile phone and charger, variable dimensions
The work "We Will Never Be Apart" presents a famous scene from the Israeli film "The Skipper" (1987), in Hebrew: Abba Ganuv, which describes the separation of Chiko Ben-David from his son. The scene is seen in a blur through the pocket of a button-down shirt, the original soundtrack has been neutralized so that only the dialogue between the father and the son remains.
︎︎︎ Video documentation
Laser-cut on Formaica, variable dimensions
The work shows a chest of drawers built by Yosef Karmiel, my grandfather the carpenter, on which are placed three stacks of candles. Each of the drawers has a handwritten label affixed - medicines, keys, writings.