Tears Become Rain

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The solo exhibition of media artist Neta Moses, Tears Become Rain, is centered around three works that take on the space of Teddy Stadium, the space of the New Gallery, and the relationship between the two. The video As Long as the LED Is On (Outside) It Can Be Fixed was created for the public space, where it is incorporated in the LED screens that wrap around the roof of Teddy Stadium. The work consists of a group of sentences in Hebrew and English combined with video and animation clips that run along the LED signs. The words and images blend together, appear, disappear, shake and move, trying to grab the attention of passers-by. Ranging from the poetic and private to the quotidian, they offer comforting, hopeful, and even playful messages. The work is effectively Moses’s personal voice “heard” in the public sphere, while also evoking the works of the American artist Jenny Holzer. On the opening night of the exhibition, the work was displayed on the stadium’s outdoor LED screens, documented, and now the documentation is  displayed in the exhibition space.

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The work that continues it inside the gallery, the LED installation As Long as the LED Is On (Inside) It Can Be Fixed, is made up of a varied collection of LED signs displaying sentences and images that continue and expand the spectrum of messages displayed in the public space.

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The third work, Tears Become Rain, is a video installation that examines the relationship between the two spaces, Teddy Stadium and the New Gallery located inside it. The work challenges our perception of the dimensions of each space, including their relation to human scale. The work is mostly based on images that the artist projected on the Stadium’s eastern tribune area that borders on the gallery, as if trying to connect the two spaces, or alternatively, to break through the physical wall that separates them. The projection on three walls in the gallery’s video room and the soundtrack created by the artist’s twin brother, the musician Guy Moses, offer an immersive experience that envelops the viewers, transporting them to a different reality. Moses’s camera journey searches for the possibility of the mind to expand outside and beyond the physical body. The viewer is invited to sit in the video room and dive into the virtual and real space alongside it.

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This is the first time that the gallery holds an exhibition that expands beyond its walls into the public space, on the Stadium’s LED screens, wishing to reach the city’s residents even from a distance, touch them and send them a comforting message in these complex times.

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Curator: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg