Hiraki Sawa

Spotter, 2003, video, b/w, 7:40 min Dwelling, 2002, video, b/w, 9:20 min Observatory Gallery: Works by Hiraki Sawa Hiraki Sawa was born in Kanazawa, Japan, in 1977 and has lived in London for the past nine years. He graduated

Doron Solomons

Brothers in Arms (Not a Political Film), 2004, video, 16 min […] The film’s main image is that of Siamese twins, brothers-in-blood who are also brothers-in-arms. It is a verbally simple and visually rich image that introduces the figure of symmetry

Gil Jacobson

Kaleidoscope, 2004, video installation Three minarets break forth through the surface of the floor, only to be truncated by it. Inaccessible and distant in the outside world, towering to considerable heights, the turrets now lie in the space at arm’s and eye’s

Uri Tzaig

Death of the Gravedigger, video and animation, 2004, 8 min. Combined video and animation, presenting the beekeeper* lying on the ground, as if he were dead, encircled by flies instead of bees, and there is no one to rescue or touch him; it is doubtful whether

Sharif Waked

Chic Point, 2003, Video, 7′

Nati Shamia Opher

landEscape, installation Floor tiles joined by truncated zap straps generate a landscape imprisoned within the concrete frame of the Museum’s courtyard. It is a topographical layout simulating the wilderness of a mountainous desert, alluding to

Moshe Kupferman

Four Scrolls, 1988-1999 Moshe Kupferman’s Four Scrolls are presented on the first anniversary of his passing. The Herzliya Museum of Art pays its respects to the artist’s memory with this special presentation – not only because he was prominent

Tal Amitai

The central theme of this show is the wedding ceremony, one of the basic and most significant cultural symbols – the fantasy of ultimate happiness. The metaphorical anchor of the show is the Versailles disaster as a story of an illusion and its shattering. Excerpts from the tragic

Hilla Ben Ari

Situated in the Museum’s elongated narrow corridor, the installation engulfs those walking along it with an array at once threatening, intrusive and enveloping. The work consists of a rigid grid made of rows of antlers projecting from the walls, rows of repeated woman-shaped cutouts, and threads tying them together. A geometric, nearly mechanical array is thus created, albeit one that embeds the biomorphic organicity embodied in the female silhouette and the horns’ curving. The duality

Embroidered Action

Participating artists: Etti Abergel, Nelly Agassi, Erez Golan, Gal Weinstein, Masha Yozefpolsky, Michal Na’aman, Ernesto Neto, Ghada Amer, Alice Klingman, Chiharu Shiota Embroidered Action is a group exhibition that explores various works of