Arrangement of Twelve Prefabricated Parapets, installation, 2004

Twelve Israeli-made prefabricated parapets of the type used by the IDF are arranged geometrically in the space. Each is set-up differently, without repetition (there are twelve possible modes of installation). The rigid, reductive composition generates a dialogue with 1960s minimalist art. The clean geometrical array, however, is penetrated by traces of the installation’s mounting – signs of the forklift wheels and crumbled bits of concrete that fell in the process. The analytical order of minimalist art is “soiled” with the human chaos of artistic practice. Neither are the concrete cubes neutral. They are derived from a concrete reality and attest to the perpetual political conflict in Israel.