Exhibitions

The Jerusalem Enigma, the mystery buried within the spirit of the city, the holiness as an urban riddle - these are the issues standing in the centre of Leora Laor's exhibit.

The ancient metaphysical yearning for building the Jerusalem of
Heaven is at the center of Lila Chitayat's virtual project. In her work, this yearning encounters contemporary theories discussing the space of positive developments that can occur in the wake of technological innovations.

What will happen if John Lennon's dream of "Imagine there's no countries... Imagine no possession..." will be mutated into a Neo-Capitalistic nightmare - where Western culture will demolish the borders of all countries, until "otherness" becomes nothing but a worthless expression.

The icosahedron, constructed out of bamboo rods, is moved through the space of Ayelet Carmi's and Meirav Heiman's installation by seven figures pushing it by changing their posture and balance. Thereby, the artists turn the geometric-mathematical form into a vessel for the body and its actions. The vessel accumulates great tension between the concrete and definite, on the one hand, and the illusory and spontaneous, on the other hand; between the possible and the impossible.

The day after 9/11, Richard Drew's photograph The Falling Man was published, showing a man, his head pointing downward, falling from one of the towers of the World Trade Center. The destruction of the Twin Towers as a catastrophic event that caused the collapse of a modernist monument obliges us to again question the fate of modernism in the postmodernist age. Is contemporary art gripped by a neo-utopist, or neo-catastrophic nostalgia? This question is at the center of the exhibition.

Navon’s works are comprised of multiple layers and strata, which seem to fuse reality and imagination, exploring a perceptual process in the mind and in the world. These works are based on a world view according to which inner contemplation, listening, and the abandonment of egoism for its own sake are able to bring humanity to a better, more decent place.

In a roundabout dialogue with Postmodernism, and against the backdrop of modernism ideas, Elie Shamir chooses to re-focus on the Human. His characters seem to come out of the fabric towards the viewers, arousing questions about Man's place in modern-day society.

The ecological discourse is one of the main issues appearing in Benni Efrat's works throughout his career. His works engage in a serious discussion regarding the future of Earth and humanity. Inspired by a sense of mission, Efrat depicts the future possibilities facing mankind, his dystopian-utopian images serving him in a futuristic-archeological history project.

Ran Slavin's project reflects a technologically, culturally, ethically, and aesthetically complex portrait of the present with respect to time, place, and space. Slavin works with layered digital 3-D animation, reflecting on the meaning of our disconnection from natural time. He proposes a technological space and time as a multisensory reflection of the virtual-digital age, in a simultaneous, hybrid utopian world.

Modernism, in its various periods and in its aspiration to liberate the means of artistic expression from their dependence on external reality, was often characterized by a poignant use of colour. The technological age has turned colour into the commercial product of a mass, uniform