Omri Zin

Born in Israel, 1979 Hurricane Kit, 2012, kinetic sculpture installation The work Hurricane Kit is a kinetic sculptural installation modeled on a Rube Goldberg Machine. The machine in this work creates a chain reaction that begins with a strong wind, continues with the movement of a plane entering an air pocket, and ends with a tree whose drying leaves gradually fall to the ground in the course of the exhibition period.

Irit Tamari

Born in Israel, 1976 End of sailboat, 2012, sculpture, cutout photographs Irit Tamari creates installations, sculptures, and pictures composed of cutout photographs. Her works abandon their printed photographic sources in order to create another possible world. By revealing both the photographic subjects and their white backs, they undermine conventional perceptions of the photographic medium, and remind the viewer that the reality he is observing is a mediated illusion.

Einat Arif-Galanti

Born in Israel, 1975 Wrinkled fruit 2003, Pear and Apple 2004, Egg 2008, Cabbage 2008, Ants candy 2008, Plastic grapes 2008, Pepper 2008, Watermelon and melon 2010, Butternut squash 2011, 9 photographs, installation. The advertising images characteristic of consumer society portray only perfect food items, leaving no

Ido Michaeli

Born in Israel, 1980 The Ethiopian Parochet, 2012, handmade embroidery: cotton thread, white cloth woven on manual loom, colored cloth – machine-embroidered ethnic pattern The Love Story of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, 2012, HD Video, 06:46 min.

Noah Raz Melamed

Born in Israel, 1962 Transparent Soil, 2012, installation, mixed media Noah Raz Melamed’s installation is concerned with the relations between nature and culture. The shelves are covered with a mixture of “natural” seeds and cultural artifacts related to agriculture: an image of a farmer tilling a field, porcelain seeds, statues of oxen and songbirds, taxidermied field mice, cutouts based on photographs of sprouts grown by the artist, and jars containing

Noa Ben-Nun Melamed

Born in Israel, 1954 Memo, 2011, 6 photographs, color inkjet on fine-art paper. Memo, the title of Noa Ben-Nun Melamed’s work, alludes both to the colorful paper notes used for various types of reminders – the raw material she uses for creating her paper boats – and to the act of remembering.

Michal Shamir

Born in Israel, 1957 Untitled, 2012, installation, mixed media (different types of glue). In Michal Shamir’s installation, a flock of semi-transparent “birds” seems to fly across one of the museum exhibition spaces. Upon closer scrutiny, however, the creatures flying overhead are revealed to be little more than the vestiges of birds or parts of wings.

Maya Attoun

Born in Israel, 1974 Abacus, 2012, installation, 240 linoleum skulls A human skull is perhaps the best-known form of memento mori (Latin for “Remember your mortality”) – images and objects used to allude to the ephemerality of human life. Skulls were thus often included in cabinets of wonder in order to introduce a sense of humility into the owner’s display of wealth and knowledge, and to remind both the collector and his guests of the fleeting

Yaron Steinberg

Born in Israel, 1982 Journey Books, 2011, series of 8 books, mixed media Like many young Israelis, when Yaron Steinberg completed his military service he embarked on a long trip abroad. Between 2004 and 2007, he traveled extensively through North and Central America, the Far East, and Europe. For Steinberg, this journey amounted to more than sightseeing and conventional “adventures.” In the course of his travels, he underwent a range of psychological

Talia Link

Born in Israel, 1984 Witches, 2012, series of 7 digital prints V, 2012, video, 4:00 min. Talia Link’s video work V presents the artist’s take on the subject of witches – dominant women who once played an important communal role as leaders, healers, and religious figures. In the course of the 15th century, the perception of these women was transformed and they came to be marginalized and persecuted as demonic