Suddenly the Light Entered
Solo exhibition
HaAmakim Art Gallery, Sha’ar HaAmakim, Curator - Einat Sinai Pasternak
uddenly the Light Entered is a site-responsive installation centered around a fragile white house frame, open to the entry of light. Embedded within the structure are watercolor paintings, photographs, light boxes, and handwritten texts that emerge from everyday moments shaped by motherhood and wartime. Together, they form an intimate environment where light becomes more than a subject—it is a force that transforms perception, creating space for vulnerability, resilience, and the possibility of hope within fracture.
Installation view
Photography: Daniel Hanoch
Best wishes
Olive tree in a paint bucket, Paving stones, white paint, sawdust
220X80X170 cm, 2023
My presence is indicated by the white color. I mark, try to protect, and choke at the same time. Using everyday materials, the generic paving stones are used as sidewalks and grave markers, emphasizing the ease with which life can turn into death.
Those who approach
an old swing in A displaced door, Iron chains, Calcite crystals, Paving stones, white paint
200X60X200 cm, 2023
The swing and the calcite crystals I collected in the field are my most innocent childhood memories. They reside inside a displaced door frame at a height that does not allow swinging, a stifled ghost swing.
I protected you
as much as I could
Olive branches, perforated crib, door frame, zip ties
300X200X230 cm, 2023
My temporary structure is made from olive branches that I collected from olive vineyards, a tree whose symbolism represents complexity to me as a Jewish woman living in Galilee. As a perforated cradle gathers under its shadow, the protected area collapses and becomes a death trap.
Mammoth
Pruned branches from an Israeli tree, plastic sheet, white paint, 150X200X150 cm, 2023
24 carat
Home nature movie, 3.48 minutes, 2023
Harvesting ant labor Sisyphicly, to raise carob seeds on traffic square step. They slide down the white step that is smooth and slippery. Even when they cooperate with each other, they cannot reach the top since they always attempt to climb the same impossible path.
(The origin of the word karat is carob seeds)
Groundwater
Watercolor and white wall paint on paper, 800XX130 cm, 2023
