The exhibition LANDSLIDE explores the shifting ways in which images are read and interpreted, how something that appears simple and self-evident may carry multiple, at times even opposing, meanings. There is no single precise Hebrew translation for the word landslide. It may be translated as “a slippery slope,” “a mountain collapse,” or understood in a political context, writes Hagai Segev, curator of the exhibition.
My light installation WOVEN is composed of fluorescent lights suspended from the ceiling, alongside an elongated rectangular object placed on the floor, also made of fluorescent tubes. The fluorescents are arranged in a seemingly random disorder. Some are lit, while others are switched off or burnt out and no longer emit light, “betraying” their original function. The work conveys an absence of order and symmetry, evoking states of light versus darkness, suspended and unstable. In doing so, it echoes the photographs by Orit Ishay displayed nearby.
