A to Z (At Tav) (2010)

Solo exhibition at Bialik House, Tel Aviv
Curator: Maria Shek

The piece shows approximately 300 clay beads, some of which are burnt and blackened. The show exhibits the beads, some of which as part of a coil-shaped structure, and some are scattered חסa surface, as if following the collapse of the structure. On one side of the structure appears the Hebrew letter Tav, as the last testimony of a word or sentence, which survived in the structure. The structure is made of beads threaded חסa string, which is wrapped around a cylinder of variable diameter. The cylinder, which functions as an encoding system - its diameter allows reading the message inscribed throughout the structure – is missing from the installation. The show, which is exhibited at the home of poet and intellectual Hayim Nahman Bialik, deals with the survivability of fire and the survivability of poetic messages, and presents the fracture – the ruin -–as testimony, a testimony that is a poetic motif within itself.