’73–’23: Video Salon Between Two Wars
A special project
—
In the realm that stretches between October 6, 1973 and October 7, 2023, tracing the connecting threads that stretch between one debacle to another and delineating the timeline between the two traumas that intertwine the national with the personal – this extensive anthology features fifty video works that were created in Israel during, between, and in light of the two wars.
73–’23: Video Salon Between Two Wars touches on the core issues that concern all of us in this time. It allows for anger, disappointment, shock, and growing frustration in the face of a repetitive reality, but it also opens a window for light, hope, and cautious optimism. It invites us to look reality squarely in the eye and examine the landscape of our lives, a landscape that right now might be wounded, distressed, and bleeding, but is still the landscape of the place where we chose to live, create, and act; one that we are all determined to fight for its future character.
The works selected for the project challenge the boundaries between the individual, the collective, and the nation in the face of political crises. They hold space for charged encounters and complex dialogues, asking if and how art can deal with trauma that cannot be represented, and wonder whether art can create a space of comfort and intergenerational support. At the same time, they dispute assumptions considered indisputable, unravel the reality we have come to know as unchangeable, and use political imagination to envision and summon a different future.
Participating artists:
Yossi Atia and Itamar Rose, Shani Avivi, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Eliahou Eric Bokobza, Ala Haytham, Doaa Bsis, Michael Druks , Laila Abd Elrazaq, Faina Feigin &Noga Or-Yam, Yael Frank, Leor Grady, Noa Gur, Hahamishia Hakamerit, Raafat Hattab, Oded Hirsch, Thalia Hoffman, Orit Ishay , Erez Israeli, Michael Jacob, Sharon Ken-dor , Meshy Koplevitch, Miki Kratsman & Boaz Arad, Sigalit Landau, Shahar Marcus, Ohad Milstein, Michal Na'aman, Lee Nevo and Amir Mayer, Vered Nissim, Tamar Nissim, Officer Az-Oolay (Maybe-Then), Dov Or Ner, Ruth Patir, Nira Pereg, David Perlov, Ada Rimon and Ofeq Shemer, Itamar Rose, Omer Rosenberg, Natan Rushansky and Gili Melnitcki, Elinora Schwartz, Ruti Sela, Yael Serlin, Naama Shohet, Doron Solomons, Moshe Tarka, Micha Ullman, Osi Wald, Rona Yefman and Tanja Schlander , Nevet Yitzhak and Lior Salute , Tamir Zadok
Tamir Zadok, Gaza Canal, 2010