May Things Be?

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The ability to document stands at the core of the photographic act. The drive to capture reality is often accompanied by a sense of urgency. The need to document becomes an impulse to fulfill a mission, and the passing events blend with one’s personal biography. At the moment of photographing, the captured instant is frozen in time, while the subject comes alive, gains immortality,  and takes on meaning that transcends everyday life.

The exhibition explores the dynamics between remembrance and oblivion, the complexity of identity, and issues of ownership and belonging. The photographs were taken at different times, some were photographed over the last year and others were drawn from the archive and given a new context in the nebulous present.

The thread that goes through the works ties the local to the fragility of life. The struggle over border, which keeps shifting since the establishment of Israel, moves from the external borders to the civilian home front. These days, we are witnessing how the street, the neighborhood, the intersection, and the village are turning into an arena of struggle. The act of going outside sets out to revisit questions about living in a reality of conflict and discord.

Artists: Shira Aboulafia, Tomer Appelbaum, Reli Avrahami, Oded Balilty, Sofie Berzon MacKie, Mati Elmaliach, Thalia Hoffman, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Saja Kotina, Miki Kratsman, France Lebée-Nadav, Alex Levac, Eldad Rafaeli, Etty Schwartz, Pavel Wolberg, Anna Yam, Keren Zaltz.

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Curator: Etty Schwartz

Director and Chief Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg
Producer: Noa Weiss Simon

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All works in the exhibition are pigment inkjet prints, unless otherwise stated