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Mental Maps depicts mirrored images of a 1938 German railway map made from rubber and pigment. The left panel contains two lines of text that read “North is West” and “[I am imprinting it down…
Shachar began to mold and cast human body parts from life early in his career. Here, hands carry the body of a young girl wrapped in a sheet, perhaps alluding to the Virgin Mary supporting the dead…
David is best known for painting with encaustic, a combination of beeswax and pigment. A Jew in Germany was painted with encaustic on wood. David often uses religious iconography in his works. In 1979…
Landau was working in a studio that she set up in an abandoned space in Tel Aviv’s central bus station, which had once been living quarters for illegal foreign workers, when she conceived of Resident…
Gershuni was a significant figure in the Israeli art scene, and over the course of his career, his art underwent dramatic changes in style and themes. His life work is evidence of his assertion from…
In the 1980s, during the AIDS epidemic, Bleckner began creating artworks that explored death, loss, and sadness. His dark and moody canvases included objects, such as urns, vases, and chandeliers…
After the Yom Kippur War (1973), it became increasingly common for Israeli artists to address political issues and criticize Israeli society. In 1974, Na’aman placed two signs on the Tel Aviv beach…
The empty chair was a recurrent image in the work of Israeli artists. Because of its associations with the (fallen) throne of the biblical King David, it was sometimes used to represent a fallen…
In 1993, Schechner digitally inserted himself into a historical photograph of prisoners in a newly liberated bunker at the Buchenwald concentration camp, taken in 1945 by Margaret Bourke-White. He…
Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside was rejected by the Venezuelan government as a contribution to the 1995 Venice Biennale. The installation consisted of a small building, resembling the majority…
