Breaking the Silence

Testimony by Adar Aviam, 2002, video, 32:00 minutes Breaking the Silence is an Israeli Non-Governmental Organization located in West Jerusalem. This organization was established by IDF veterans who have been collecting testimonies from soldiers about their military service in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem since the Second Intifada, while providing them with a platform for describing their experiences in the Israeli-occupied territories.

Aharon Ozery and Roee Ozeri

Aharon Ozery born in Canada in 1971, lives and works in Berlin Roee Ozeri born in Israel in 1969, lives and works in Israel In Stability, 2013, kinetic installation, mixed media Aharon Ozery and Roee Ozeri’s installation examines the movement of magnetic fields and the states of instability, or conflict, created when these fields come into contact with metals. In doing so, it also studies the aesthetic structures produced in this process of natural interaction, and probes

Adar Aviam

Born in Israel in 1983, lives and works in Berlin Smokescreen, 2011, acrylic, pencil and oil pastels on canvas Sacrifice, 2011, acrylic, pencil and oil pastels on canvas Human Shield, 2012, acrylic, pencil and oil pastels on canvas Wings, 2010, acrylic, pencil and oil pastels on canvas Butterfly Catcher, 2010, acrylic, pencil and oil pastels on canvas

Other People’s Problems

This exhibition is concerned with other people’s problems, conflicts that do not touch us directly and confrontations stemming from the incompatibility between opposing interests. The works examine various aspects of such confrontations, and thus shed light on religious, political, economic or gender-related sites of contention, as given expression in visual art. Examples include the predicament of Libyan refugees stranded at sea while trying to reach a safe haven, who receive no help from

Ori Drumer

Born in 1965, lives and works in Tel Aviv After Mondrian, 2012, video, 3:10 min. After Kandinsky, 2012, video, 4:40 min. After Klee, 2012, video, 3:00 min. Ori Drumer’s three films present adaptations of three abstract artworks: Transverse Line (1923) by Wassily Kandinsky, Fugue in Red (1921) by Paul Klee, and Composition in Lines (1917) by Piet Mondrian. Drumer breathes motion into these paintings using 3D animation.

Avner Shahaf

Born in 1972, lives and works in Tel Aviv Dream, 2012, video, 4:24 min. Avner Shahaf’s work is based on a technique devised by the Surrealist Movement – the “exquisite corpse.” In this method, a group of people draws together an image of a person. Each member discreetly draws, in turn, a different part of the human body and then folds the paper over leaving only the edge of his or her drawing showing before passing it on to the next person.

Children’s Talk

Artistic adviser: Ben Hagari Participating artists: Orit Adar Bechar, Nadav Bin-Nun, Ori Drumer, Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski, Keren Gueller, Michal Heiman, Shai Hershkowitz & Maya Tiberman, Elyasaf Kowner, Ruti Sela, Avner Shahaf, Shay-Lee Uziel. Children’s inner world, feelings, dreams, imaginary realms and idiosyncratic childhood experiences are some of the themes dealt with by the works on display in this exhibition. Childhood is characterized as a

Nevet Yitzhak

Born in Jerusalem, in 1975. Lives and works in Ramat-Gan The Concert, 2013, video and sound installation Nevet Yitzhak’s video installations explore the ways in which cultural categories construct identity, particularly in the context of the distinction between East and West. Her most prominent practice is that of deconstruction – of the visual, conceptual, and auditory elements characterizing a certain fixed and defined unit of meaning that, in turn,

Raqs Media Collective

Jeebesh Bagchi born in 1965; Monica Narula born in 1969; Shuddhabrata Sengupta born in 1968, All live and work in New Delhi Bloom, 2013, video, 2:30 minutes During Raqs’ visit to the Dead Sea, it was the supersonic booms of a squadron of jets circling overhead that set in motion a creative process revolving around the meaning of salt in various cultural and historical contexts and as a philosophical and metaphysical metaphor. The key concept in this study is

Bill of Lading

Bill of Lading is a joint exhibition of Raqs Media Collective, based in New Delhi, and the Israeli artist Nevet Yitzhak. It is the outcome of concurrent 2011 residencies spent by the artists in Israel, at the JCVA residency, and India, in the KHOJ residency program, respectively. The works of Raqs Media Collective and those of Nevet Yitzhak explore questions of social and political time and space as expressed in societies that are attempting to rebuilt and redefine their identities. Both