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 …
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 …
Loyalties Latex on board, video, 2021. Commissioned mapping and mural on a basketball court about sacred geometry.
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 …
Water my plant With Denise Lara Margules. Mestizo Arts Festival (Belgium), 2017 Festival LODO (Buenos Aires), 2018 Five cultural institutions from Belgium were matched to five others from Argentina, through exchanging scale models of their buildings. The initiative gave way to experimental collaboration attempts between the organisations. The narration of the process, through context-specific multimedia and performative works, exposed institutional …
Love will tear us apart Dir. Maia Minovich, Club Cultural Matienzo, 2016 The results of an online survey about love form the base material of a three-piece band of poetry, music and live visuals.