Shachar Freddy Kislev

Shachar Freddy Kislev first solo exhibition invites the viewer into a fantastic world spanning the kingdoms of animals, plants and inanimate objects. A microcosm, in which relationships between humans, animals and plants have changed is displayed. This is a fictional world in which hybrid creatures live in an unusual habitat that looks futuristic and at the same time, it could represent ancient times in which the definitions of functionality have been altered and the separation between animals,

Shay-Lee Uziel

Born in 1972, lives and works in Tel Aviv Mirrors, 2013, video installation, 7:35 min. The work of Shay-Lee Uziel hybridizes children’s instructional film and a film documenting an artistic action. The artist, wishing to illuminate his dark studio with a set of mirrors, shares with us his plan and dilemmas. Like many other activities, the mirror games he plays with his daughter stress the joint playful aspect of the world of art and that of children. As far

Maya Tiberman & Shai Hershkowitz

Maya Tiberman born in 1980; Shai Hershkowitz born in 1973, both live and work in Israel A Shell, 2012, video, 7:19 min. At the heart of Maya Tiberman & Shai Hershkowitz’s work, there is a boy who transforms reality with the help of his imagination and inner world. A shell he has found on the beach functions as a magic tool. Using it enables him to change reality and materialize the figments of his imagination. It works like a cinematic machine that alters

Ruti Sela

Born in 1974, lives and works in Tel Aviv Glasses Camera, 2012, video, 6:47 min. In her Glasses Camera, Ruti Sela combines two optical devices: eyeglasses and built-in hidden camera. She lets her two nephews shoot most of the film, thereby allowing us to see the world through the eyes of a child for a few minutes. Sela interweaves several discrete and seemingly incongruous genres: children’s films, documentary reportages, hidden camera, home made videos and

Keren Gueller

Born in 1976, lives and works in Israel Counting sheep, 2012, video, 7:00 min. Keren Gueller’s work corresponds with one of Israeli children’s constitutive albums, Ha’Keves Ha’Shisha Asar (The 16th Sheep). The work alludes to the gap between the idyllic superficial picture we have of childhood and the cracks that are formed within that image and reveal a reality that is usually censored and deemed unfit for children’s eyes. Bringing together

Nadav Bin-Nun

Born in 1983, lives and works in Tel Aviv (%^):*& ^!@#%, 2013, video, 4:40 min. Nadav Bin-Nun’s work presents an unstable world where the borders between reality and fiction, inside and outside, mother and son are blurred. Television infiltrates reality with recorded sound effects that pervade the living room, whereas the grey and bleak reality ominously and confusingly invades into the televised fiction.

Michal Heiman

Born in 1954, lives and works in Tel Aviv Reality and Playing No. 3 – Looking for Sarah – A proposal for a Visual Reconstruction of a D. W. Winnicott Case Study, 2012, video, 18:00 min. Michal Heiman’s work reflects the artist’s continuous preoccupation with the interface between psychoanalysis and art. Her film refers to psychoanalyst and pediatrician Donald Winnicott’s text, “Interview with an Adolescent: A Therapeutic Consultation,”

Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski

Efim Graboy born in 1989; Daria Turetski born in 1990, both live and work in Tel Aviv Life in a plate, 2012, video, 7:51 min. In Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski’s film, a bored young girl creates an imaginary world of her own from the veggies on her luncheon plate. Her wandering thoughts and daydreaming shift us to another world made entirely of animated vegetables, fruits and other foodstuffs: the girl is made of a potato and sweet red pepper; the meadow where

Elyasaf Kowner

Born in 1970, lives and works in Tel Aviv On the Way Back, 2012, video, 6:00 min. Elyasaf Kowner’s work deals with one of the central fears and experiences of childhood – those of getting lost. Kowner constructs the work alphabetically. Alphabet is a system that introduces the child into language. On the one hand, it enables and teaches him or her to orientate in the world. Yet, on the other hand, by giving names to things, it establishes a gap between

Orit Adar Bechar

Born in 1960, lives and works in Tel Aviv Matissa, 2013, video, 10:00 min. Orit Adar Bechar’s work is an adaptation of Henri Matisse’s painting Harmony in Red (1908). The artist resurrects Matisse’s painting and recharges it with her own interpretation. She leaves intact the painterly and plastic components of the original work, and therefore the world in which the maid is moving about is actually a painting. Adar Bechar refers to Matisse’s