Dana Levy

Born in Israel The Ark of Fort de Tourneville, 2012, 7 photographs. In the 16th and 17th centuries, cabinets of wonder often included, among other items, stuffed animals and collections of shells and stones. In the 18th century, many of these collections were donated to, or acquired by, various European states. These exhibits came to constitute the core displays of the world’s first museums, among which are the British museum (inaugurated in 1759) in London,

Dina Goldstein

Born in Israel, 1976 Wonderland, 2011, video, 4:05 min. Camera: Dina Goldstein, Dan Lahiani Editing: David Lockard In this work, Dina Goldstein presents video documentation of the performance Wonderland – originally created as a set for a miniature puppet theater that comes to life as a live projection before the audience.

Guy Raz

Born in Israel, 1964 Wadi Es Sidr, 1992-1997, photographs Guy Raz began photographing the series Wadi Sidr while still a student, when he returned to the Valley of Jezreel to capture the landscapes surrounding the kibbutz he grew up on, Kevutzat Geva. Wadi Sidr lies in the area between the former Arab village Qumi (today Kibbutz Ein Harod), Khirbet Kara, and the Kfar Yehezkel cemetery. The wadi is named after the fruit of the jujube tree (sidr in Arabic), which resembles

Belle Shafir

Born in Germany, 1953; lives and works in Israel Samsara, 2012, installation, horse hair and needles Belle Shafir weaves together strands of horse hair to create delicate, linear objects – ethereal, material drawings. The act of crocheting creates small “insects” or “horses” that are affixed to the wall with needles; here and there, strands of hair or threads dangle from these creatures. These images, which are made to partake of a laboratory-like

Boaz Aharonovitch

Born in Israel, 1970 Growing a Garden in the Studio for an Unknown Lover, 2011, video, 10:48 min. Boaz Aharonovitch’s video work is concerned with the dimension of time and with the attempt to arrest its constant flow. This video is composed of still photographs taken daily in the artist’s studio in accordance with a set of pre-determined rules. These rules included a commitment to a daily practice centered on documenting the changes introduced

Etti Abergel

Born in Israel, 1960 Fragments of a Structure Fragments That Did or Did Not Happen, 2012, installation, mixed media Collection of the artist Etti Abergel’s installation – a cascade of empty, multilayered vessels – follows directly upon the series of works she created between 2009 and 2011. In this work, the artist began with a series of round glass jars, which she then enveloped in consecutive layers of silk paper, masking tape, and aluminum

Ariela Padan

Born in Israel, 1955 Influx, 2011, installation, 288 photographs. Ariela Padan’s photographic series Influx was created in the course of an entire year. During this period, she repeatedly visited the mouth of the Alexander Stream in the morning hours, and took hundreds of photographs.

Efrat Klipshtien

Born in Israel, 1971 A thousand knots to one storm, 2012, Graphite on squared paper In this exhibition, Efrat Klipshtien presents graphite drawings of sailboats on squared paper. According to the set of rules she established for this work, she chooses online images of boats with sails whose patterns can be assimilated into the squared pattern of the paper. As a result, each sail appears within a “frame,” while the boat’s body exceeds the limits

Asif Shwartz-Yassour

Born in Israel, 1986 Tumor, 2011-2012, installation, knit wool The creation of historical cabinets of wonders was motivated in part by a desire to establish a connection between the world of art and the natural world, and to demonstrate the existence of a divine unifying principle, or magical correspondence, underlying these different realms – the human and the natural, the microcosm and the macrocosm.This yearning for synchronism reached its climax in the

Eliezer Sonnenschein

Born in Israel in 1967 Anthology of Insect and Plants in Israel (advanced sketch), 2012, mixed media. The sciences of botany and entomology (the study of insects) developed significantly in the course of the 16th century. Taxonomy, the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms (including all plants, animals and microorganisms), developed somewhat later, in the 17th century. The consolidation of these three scientific fields had an important impact on