Solo exhibition
2026 / Black Box, Gallery 97, Jerusalem
Curators / Itzhak Mizrahi and Assaf Cohen
Press:
Prtfl Magazin
Video interview + installation view
״Moonlight is not only light; it is a power, a power that draws the soul out of the body’s bounds. I saw Gamula standing on the roof, her hair spread like a black cloud, singing in a language that was not the language of men, but the language of spirits that blow between the stars. In that hour I knew that there is but a hair’s breadth between this world and the world to come; and he who treads on a ray of light is no longer subject to the laws of the earth.”
Two Tales: Betrothed & Edo and Enam S.Y. Agnon (Walter Lever, trans. Schocken, 1966)
"אור הלבנה אינו אור בלבד, אלא כוח הוא, כוח שמושך את הנפש לצאת מגדר הגוף. ראיתי את גמולה (הסהרורית) עומדת על הגג, ושערה פזור כענן שחור, והיא שרה בלשון שאינה לשון בני אדם אלא לשון של רוחות המנשבות בין כוכבים. באותה שעה ידעתי, שאין בין עולם זה לעולם הבא אלא כחוט השערה, ומי שדורך על קרן אור, כבר אינו נשמע לחוקי הארץ." (מתוך: עידו ועינם / ש"י עגנון)
The spirit is the mark of what is missing yet refuses to disappear, leaving elusively transparent traces of the past within the present. This strange disruption of time creates a hybrid liminal space to which I return time and again.
This corpus is an invitation to a nocturnal journey between intertwined sights with a multiplicity of times illuminated by silvery lights.
The source of the works lies in my personal photographic archive, including nature museums, Iceland, the shore, and studio still life images. They were superimposed on a lightbox, captured again in the camera lens, and printed as a unit. The work process follows the motif of the palimpsest – re-using an existing tablet to add new layers onto it. The strata act as past memories emerging to the surface. They may be vaguely identified as they impact the new layer and change its context
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Light boxes,180 × 250 cm
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קופסאות אור, 250 × 180 ס״מ
