Gates Video (4K, 9:16, no sound, 10′), 2025 Gates is a video collage created from the first page («Gate page») of books published between the 16th and 20th centuries, that are part of the collection of Archive of the Center for Jewish Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gates transposes Kafka’s “Before the Law,” (where a guard prevents the …
Or Fine art print on rice paper, video (no sound, 11’), 15x220cm, 2025 OR explores the fragility of our efforts to understand one another and the tension between intelligibility and opacity as both an aesthetic and a moral problem. Through a radical process of translation of an ancient text centered on the word «or» (light), the work points to how …
Rainsticks Giclée prints, Dead Sea salt, carboard, 2023. Fine art prints on kiri wood, 15x110cm, 2025. Exhibited at «HaErev Na», Kol HaOt, Jerusalem, October 2023. Curated by Eli Kaplan-Wildmann. Series of digitally manipulated photographs of the sinkholes at Salinas Grandes in Argentina. Exhibited on October 5, 2023 as five functional rainsticks as part of a Hoshana Rabbah exhibition («HaErev Na», …
Candelaria Interactive single-channel video, 3 min, 2022 Sound: Lautaro Schachmann Acknowledgments: Maia Tarcic, Denise Lara Margules, Julia Benseñor, Martin Jais Host & support: Eli Kaplan Wildmann / Kol HaOt 1. Meters away from this art space, 2022 years ago, Mary went to the Second Temple with her son Jesus, with a sin offering to purify herself. By then, Jesus and …
George W. Bush Square, Jerusalem Gold 18K, Jerusalem stone, mirror. At «Fool’s gold», Koresh 14 Gallery, 2021. Curator: Dveer Shaked. George W. Bush Square is a tiny corner plaza in Jerusalem, built over part of an important Muslim cemetery active from 800 CE. Only 200 meters away from the Old City, it is right where the Green Line used to …
«Hajlafat shinui» At Equalizing Matter, Maamuta (Jerusalem), 2021. Curator: Irit Carmon Popper. «Hajlafat Shinui» (exchange of changes) is an homage to artistic projects that contributed to political changes and abolition of the dictatorships in the southern countries of South America, which is offered as an inspirational model for cultural agents in Israel today. Activist practices are highlighted in the works …
Tohu & Vohu Video for the online exhibition «The Ararat Collective’s Guide to Surviving the Pandemic», 2021 Animated short about two characters that interact with objects related to Israel and COVID-19. They go through three stages, from stepping back to stepping in, that follow the biblical terms Shmita, Tohu VaBohu and Ararat. A text accompanying the video quotes Jewish Sources …
Dikduk Javerim: a call to prayer, 4 AM, Hebrew learning compound for immigrants, Armon HaNatziv, 800 m. west of Arab alSawahira Video, 2’55». Kol HaOt, The Jerusalem Biennale, 2021. Curator: Eli Kaplan Wildmann. Developed at the residency program «48: Creative Quarantine», Jerusalem 2021. Featuring Orly Noa Rabinyan. Additional voices by Julia & Martín Jais. Samples by Wos – Canguro (Instrumental …
מה השתנה אתמול What Changed Yesterday Virtual performance, Festival Manofim 2020. Curator: Moran Solomarsky. Walking tour, Hamiffal 2020. A virtual tour that merges two territories at the same time: Jerusalem and South America. Jais is a new immigrant in Israel who in his artistic activity focuses on collective agency. In this tour, which follows a walking path across West Jerusalem, …
Where People Kiss Matienschön (Buenos Aires), 2018. Curator: Tam Painé Ciai 36 artists were invited to create scale models of their past exhibitions at an independent art space. They were installed in that same room as the cabins of a functioning Ferris wheel, alongside a video based on footage from the openings. WPK attempted to create an alternative archive of …