Yael Bartana

On a bench in New York I met a black woman. Her face was decorated with sequins. She wore a beautiful movie star’s hat and nice clothes. She spoke to someone very specific who wasn’t there by her side. I asked her who she was talking to. She said she was talking to the people

Ziva Netanel

Each painting features a massively enlarged yarmulke that takes up the entire canvas. The painting is spectacular. In terms of its reference to reality, it represents an act of displacement and decontextualization – a type of hyperrealism and pop art. The tiny skullcap becomes monumental,

Dror Daum

The frontal view of a hospital building reveals the main entrance to an emergency room. The hoisted sign contains a festive notation of a safe haven, far-removed from all those circumstances that bring one here, providing you with an inner imperative, to beware and not let blood leave

Ben Ben Ron

In his new project at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Ben Ben Ron chooses the (men’s and women’s) toilets as an ex-territorial display space within the museum. Ben Ron invades the intimate space of the toilets, encumbering the viewer with revealing, expressive visual

Ariel Schlesinger

Ariel Schlesinger presents an installation based on his graduation project at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. The ceiling of the space was lowered by means of plywood boards, confining an inflatable bear underneath. The bear is sewn from expendable

Erez Israeli

Untitled, Video / installation, 2003 Every year I stand. Afterwards I tell myself that perhaps next year I’ll finally be able to feel the pain. I have become physically accustomed to standing at attention, sharing a nation’s pain, a vague distant hurt; pain

Eli Gur Arie

In the exhibition Civilian Applications a “technological salon” is created, presenting civil implementations of military technologies. A desolate and degenerated world becomes fertile ground for the revival of a new evolution that works diligently on repair. […] When

Sharon Paz

“For our house is our corner of the world.” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1958 The video piece Wandering Home strives to re-define the notion of ‘home.’ It explores the ways in which we experience the ‘home’; how we perceive

Robert Melee

The protagonist in Robert Melee’s photographs and short films is his mother, Rose Melee. A relatively well-preserved woman of about sixty, heavily made-up, wearing a flashy wig and seductive, provocative clothing in her role-playing persona. Her garish appearance defies every