1 / Uprooted – the work was displayed in the exhibition – “LeSha’ata”
Life once again brings us face-to-face with moments where reality shifts its form. We are compelled to respond to constant flux, where the familiar and stable become alien, and the permanent gives way to the transient, the temporary, and the fleeting.
The exhibition LeSha’ata (Aramaic for “for this hour” or “for a limited time”) invites us to contemplate a realm of temporality and transience, touching upon the intersection of the body, the home, and personal space. It offers a fresh perspective on the ephemeral—viewing the transient not as an end point, but as a starting point for creation and growth. It invites us to discover beauty and tenderness in the marks of time, in erosion and disintegration, recognizing that these very elements bear the strongest witness to the existence of life itself, while opening a doorway to healing and hope.
curator: Tzafi Sivan Spivak
2 / My Perception of Time – the work was displayed in the exhibition – “Home. Textile. Human”
Transience is no stranger to us as a people. It accompanies the defining, arduous, significant, and complex chapters of our history. It is documented in the stories, texts, and creative works that have been with us throughout the ages—from the Exodus from Egypt, the Babylonian Exile, and the Expulsion from Spain, to the waves of immigration to the Land from the four corners of the earth. A people in motion; words accompanying journeys marked by fear and choice, yet also by yearning and longing. Forms of transience are woven into literary, material, visual, and musical works. They preserve what is so difficult to articulate in text: panic, fear, apprehension regarding the unknown, and the loss of the tangible anchor that provides stability, connection, context, and meaning.
“How is it possible that the thought of the transience of beauty causes us such confusion? After all, the beauty of nature reappears each year following the devastation of winter, and the span of our lives can repeat itself and be perceived as eternity.” In 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote: “It is hard for me to accept the fact that the beauty and perfection of a work of art or an intellectual achievement are of lesser value because they are limited in time.” The past year has compelled us to respond—with body, spirit, and material—to situations where the ground shifts, security is undermined, the certain becomes alien, and the permanent turns transient, fleeting, temporary, and unsettling. So many have found themselves without a home—both physical and emotional—bereft of an anchor, a sense of belonging, or a community.
The exhibition Body. Garment. Home serves as a reflection of the archaeological findings born of the transience forced upon the Philistine people who arrived on the shores of this land. It features leading Israeli designers alongside recent graduates. Their works reflect transience, panic, grief, and displacement, alongside hope and humanity, memory and family, anchors and home. Through this exhibition, we seek to turn our gaze toward the role of a new creation within daily lives that have yet to stabilize—moving from home to homelessness, from family to loss, from stability to displacement. “Transience is a power…” asserts Japanese curator Kenya Hara; likewise, we wish to propose transience as a starting point rather than an end.
These works emerged from lived experiences of displacement, wandering, and migration—experiences deeply rooted within me. I work with organic materials that naturally decompose over time. This process of decomposition highlights the transience and fragility of life, fostering an appreciation for the singular moment. This fleeting nature compels me to try to repair, connect, and mend what often seems impossible to join; to create a new existence from elements not necessarily meant to be one; and to offer an opportunity for a new, shared state of being.
curators: Galit Gaon & Tzafi Sivan Spivak
