Performance–installation, MFA graduate exhibition, Bezalel, Tel Aviv, Israel 2024
Recipient of an Honorable Mention within the Rivkind–Ben Tzur Prize in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
EDNA
Each day at 4:00 I come to the kitchen room and enter into a process in which I bake bread. The time I remain in the space is the time required to complete the baking. At the end of the action, I leave the bread on the table and exit the room. The audience is invited to slice from the bread and eat. Those who arrive too early or too late may encounter only a scattering of crumbs or a grease stain.For the sculpting of the room, drawn from the model of a modest kibbutz room, I collected objects and parts dismantled from old apartments and embedded them in the gallery, shaping an installation almost organic to the local architecture. Beyond sculpting the space, I continued to sculpt and to bake through a durational action that accrued and left its traces in the room.
I come to the room every day at four o'clock, and bake bread.
The temperature of the oven, the rising of the yeast, and my mood
determine the duration of the day's work
(according to a rabbi, it does not exceed 200 minutes).
There are things that are gentle, like thighs or a stool,
to which I bend when I get tired.
If I did not leave bread on the table,
you are allowed to slice some of it
if it runs out, come back tomorrow.
ZUMU is an Israeli initiative that brings art to peripheral regions, establishing each time a temporary museum in an unused public space (factory, stable, communal laundry).
I was invited to exhibit my work 'Edna' in the “Gathering” exhibition, hosted in the old dining hall of Kibbutz Bror Chail. The community located on the Gaza border and suffered severe damage following the events of October 7.
For the project, I collaborated with a local baker who baked bread twice a day throughout the exhibition.The scent of the fresh bread filled the museum space with the familiar atmosphere of a kibbutz dining hall, guiding visitors through the exhibition by following the smell.
