bodies in light presents a record of everyday bodily and object life, which explores in a multiplicity of textures and time cycles, experiences of the post-partum body as a latent portal: an empty moving home carrying within it the memory of opening.
4 channel site specific video projections
misc. sizes and lengths, on loops, air conditioner, vellum
videos include: double curtain, bath breath, dust corner, window;
2023
window asks what happens between an image and its reflection? "Tell the truth, but tell it slant" (Dickenson), this intentional refraction creates a chasm where questions of place, time, and disorientation begin to emerge.
light projection, video (2:42, loop), plant and window
2022
nowhere, is a series of collages and cut outs created from old military albums and historic landscape photography of Israel in the 1950s-1960s, when my father was an adolescent and then conscripted into the military. The work investigates what Munira Khayyat calls “naturalized war”, when war is so pervasive it becomes naturalized into the landscape.
Cut-outs, collages from military albums and landscape photography albums, family photographs, misc. sizes
2022
herzl 143 In this work, four women gather, try to preserve from destruction a longing for home and hold tight to a scaffolding of words. A home waiting for them, a home they were told existed, a home from which they were expelled, a home from which they fled, a home that will never return.
This installation was created from found objects in a demolished building. The work was accompanied by a book of texts written by each artist about each item in English, Arabic and Hebrew. The installation was slowly reduced by the taking of objects by passersby. As of April 2023, the entire site was demolished, including this work.
Installation, found objects, white paint
A collaboration with Marwa Bakri, Shani Avivi and Moran Lee Yakir, book design, Netta Rabinovich
2022
lamp records a shapeshifting everyday object. By playing with the amount of light coming into the camera, this work follows the different phases of the lamp, from burned out to moon sphere and back again
video (3:36, loop) and reflections
2022