After the pilgrimage to the theater in the capital, we returned to Gush Dan. We will now meet at the crossroads of cities and faiths, in an Arab public high school in Jaffa, and set out at dusk for a walking tour of a performative exhibition. In the park, we will encounter public sculptures, living bodies, urban landscapes, religious symbols, and the forces of nature. As a group of believers in Dat Dan, we will together enter the public gallery that is our actual habitat. Through the power of sculpture, dance, music, and performance, we will insist on the world of art as a sectorial and spiritual space for us. Thus, although we are alone in the struggle, we will gently express ourselves in an environment that perhaps rejects us. Facing west, along the Mediterranean Sea, we will sense the pain of place and pray for and with art.
Concept and Curation: Ido Feder
With the support of Tel Aviv Municipality. The event is part of the “Loving Art Making Art”.
Works Featured in the Exhibition:
Internal Destruction
Shaul Dahan
Special thanks to Amir Meir Ana Wild Amir Bolzman and Yoni Niv
In this work, Dahan examines the relationship formed when playing on a generative system that plays by itself but is subject to external influences, as the musician reacts to it and changes it in real time. In order to breathe life into it, while the system does depend on the one who built it, from the moment the permission was given – it exists as an independent entity, to which we must listen and respond. In the performance, Dahan creates an ecstatic worship environment by using analog synthesis systems and texts and prayers from the Orthodox world.
Luna Moshe Roas, 2024, Stainless Steel and Glass, Park Ha’Midron, Jaffa Curator: Smadar Schindler The sculpture “Luna” consists of three moons touching one another, representing three simultaneous moon phases. One of the moons features a glass lens that captures sunlight and refracts it onto the lawn that stretches along the seaside promenade. Thus, within the sculpture, a relationship between the two celestial bodies—the sun and the moon—takes place. White moon, crescent, Luna—the Earth’s only natural satellite symbolizes cycles and renewal in many cultures and holds within it the mysterious and the magical. It gently illuminates moments of madness, provides refuge for lovers discovering their love, and makes space for hidden nighttime tales. The “Luna” sculpture is dedicated to the vibrant white city and to night lovers in all its phases.
Action for Luna
Or Ashkenazi
Sometimes, under conditions of gentleness, convention captures reality. This is a woman gazing at a sculpture, a living body participating in the gaze the sculpture offers to the public. Or Ashkenazi continues her dialogue with artist Moshe Roas and performs “Action for Luna.”
A ROCK
Tamar Borer
Co creator, musician, cellistTom Klein:
Costume: Kedem Sassoon
The source of inspiration for the work is a poem hidden between the lines of Mahmoud Darvish’s book “A remembrance of forgetfulness”, a poignant, painful, exposed and brave war diary, which he wrote while living in Beirut during the Lebanon War: Darvish writes in his book that he found this poem among the writings of a Sufi sage, and it is actually a philosophical-poetic description of the story of the creation of the world. The text is a foundation for a creative journey that looks at symbols as reflecting mental, social and political realms. Musician and cellist Tom Klein created original music for the work. Tom and Tamar have been creating in collaboration for the past seven years. Throughout the years of their joint work, they created three duets (ISLAND , MIGHTY CREATURES, SHINBONE) and two works for an ensemble (NOOR, HAFUGA).
Painters on the Shore Efrat Natan, 2023, Stainless Steel and Painted Aluminum, Park Ha’Midron, Jaffa Curator: Aya Miron The piece is a sculptural environment installed facing the sea, near the promenade in Park Ha’Midron. It consists of three hollow structures shaped like the letter T, placed horizontally on tripods at different heights. The hollow structures are open to the west and from the sides to the north and south. They invite visitors to insert their heads into the sculpture through an opening at the bottom, offering a precise view westward toward the sea, horizon, and sky, as one would look through a window or a camera. Each sculpture’s openings are different, framing three distinct shapes from the sea view: square, horizontal-rectangular, and vertical-rectangular. Through the openings on the sides of each sculpture, one can hear the wind and the waves differently than in the open air. The people with their heads inside the structures are essentially wearing a large mask over their entire heads and faces, shaped like a T. They appear like hybrid creatures, ancient butterflies, aliens, or a peculiar coast guard.
Head Sculpture
by Efrat Natan
Performed by Shahar Hanin
Staged by Ido Feder
Head Sculpture (1973) was Efrat Natan’s first street performance to a chance audience. In many ways, this work wa harbinger of an artistic genre of quiet action in the public space, which was recognized thanks to the remaining photographic images. Such works, that combine body art and minimalist sculpture, are formed in a space that is devoid of institutional artistic context, with the very occurrence often affecting the content of the work. Thus, for example, the title of this work was given by two random tourists who were observing Natan walking along Dizengoff and Frishman Streets, her head stuck in a hollow MDF sculpture in the shape of a cross, or the letter X or a plus sign. One tourist said to the other: “Look! A head sculpture!” The piece was reconstructed in the exhibition “Out of Cube” in Tel Aviv Museum of Art, There, the performer Nir Vidan walked Natan’s walk, which she first made forty years ago. Today, Head Sculpture will be placed in the park, where it will look at it differently.
Paradise
Matan Cohen
Performers: Adi Blumenreich & Danai Porat
Costumes: Shahaf Shirki
Two girls sing songs of sorrow, life, nationalism, war and peace. Beloved classics from ‘The Sound of Music’ are rewritten to reflect the spirit of our times.
Star Gates
Noa Yafe, 2023, Stainless Steel, Park Ha’Midron, Jaffa Curator: Udi Edelman* The “Star Gates” sculpture features seven gates nested within one another, through which one can pass and view the sea horizon on one side and the Jaffa Port on the other. The sculpture’s mirror-like material gives it an elusive appearance, almost disappearing when viewed from a distance as it reflects its surroundings. The sculpture engages with the idea of both spiritual and physical gates—gates of entry for immigrants, gates of triumph, gates of heart and soul, gates of consciousness, and astral gates. The monumental form of the sculpture invites the viewer to pass through and walk within it.
Shaul Dahan is a composer and sound artist based in Jerusalem. He is a graduate of the New Music Department and the Artistic Research Program at the Musrara School
Moshe Roas was born in 1981 in Israel. He is a Tel Aviv-based sculptor whose work explores the intersection of modernist principles and the alchemical transformation of different materials. Using traditional techniques alongside found and created materials, Roas creates abstract sculptures. His works are a manifesto of a formula; a logic that undermines the balance of weights and shapes. Their forms stimulate the viewer's senses, creating intangible sounds and activating a precise yet invisible system that communicates with reality in encrypted frequencies. Roas's approach to materials is transformative, integrating elements such as wood, metal, and textiles into harmonious structures. His works embody the tension between softness and danger, inviting sensory and emotional engagement. Roas, a graduate of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and the Midrasha School of Art, honed his skills through residency programs and international courses. He founded the print workshop at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art and has been teaching printmaking for over a decade. He has won awards such as the Talent Prize for Excellence and the Ministry of Culture Prize. His sculptures are part of private and public collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Rosenblatt Collection, and the Schocken Collection.
Or Ashkenazi is a dancer, performer, and a choreographer. She graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, from the movement department and the choreography program. As a creator, Or works in the seam between dance and visual arts. She is interested in different forms of presence and in changing resolutions of movement and emotion. Or has Created the trilogy: “And so, I have a relationship with the sun” (2021), Between Heaven and to Earth Festival ” Forest" (2022), Diver Festival “Wood and Copper” (2023), Tel Aviv Museum of Art and “Moon” (2023), Jerusalem Arts Festival. Or has been dancing in the Yasmeen Godder Company since 2019, and collaborates with artists of different disciplines such as Anat Shamgar, Hilla Ben-Ari, Iris Erez, Guy Guttman, Tami Leibovits, Danielle Shoufra, Ari Folman, and others.
Tamar Borer is a choreographer, dancer, stage artist, butoh dance teacher. Since 1988 she has been creating, dancing and performing with solo works, duets and ensemble works on stages in Israel and around the world. Tamar won many awards, including a promising artist award from the Buchman Hayman Foundation, Israel, a young artist award from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Israel, the Albert-Gaubier-Holland-Switzerland award. She teaches guided imagination therapy in rehabilitation hospitals in Israel and around the world. She guides and artistically accompanies creative processes of multidisciplinary artists, performers, students at festivals, dance academies, theater shows and more. Tamar Often collaborates with artists from various fields, such as: musicians, cinematographers, authors, photographers, sculptors and plastic designers. Since 1992, Tamar has been supported by the dance section of the ministry of cultural , Mifal Hapais, The Yehoshua Rabinovitch foundation, and various private sponsors. One of the founders of the Choreographers Association where she has been an active member since 1995. For 16 years, founder and artistic director of Studio Boho - a place for performance art, a space for experimental and innovative multidisciplinary art: a home for creativity, shows and meetings with a variety of audiences.
Tom Ambache Klein is a cellist and composer. His creative output spans
composition for ensembles, site-specific pieces, music for dance, and improvisation. He has performed at festivals in Israel and abroad, such as the Israel Festival, Suzanne Dellal International Exposure, Mekudeshet Festival, Tzlil Meudcan, PechaKucha Tel Aviv, Hangartfest Italy, CIRCE Georgia. Klein is the co-founder of "SEDEK," a Jerusalem-based multidisciplinary collective that promotes contemporary and experimental music. He is a lecturer at the Musrara School of Art and directs the music department at the Israel Arts and Science Academy (IASA). Klein holds a BMus and MMus in composition from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. He is a recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture, the Sharett Foundation, the Sidai Foundation, and the Pais Culture Fund.
Efrat Natan born in 1947 in Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin, is a multidisciplinary Israeli artist. Since the 1970s, her work has been characterised by an exploration of artistic values through conceptual art and body art. Motifs from the environment that surrounded her during her childhood serve as a starting point for many of her works: the four cardinal directions, the earth and starry night skies, the landscape of the Beit She'an Valley and the Jordan River, the modest kibbutz houses, and the bed within them. These elements were deeply internalised in her bodily consciousness and later translated into her art. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Natan has created powerful images that have achieved iconic status in the field of Israeli art. She works with diverse media, paying unique attention to her personal life story, current events in Israel, the local collective experience, and past art. Her body of work blends body art with minimalism, serving as a local echo of parallel modernist movements in international art.
Matan Cohen is an independent dancer and creator. Born in 1993 in Haifa, he studied dance in ‘Reut’ School for the Arts and later in Maslool Bikurey Ha’Itim. Matan joined Ensemble Batsheva in 2013 and later danced with Batsheva Dance Company in the years 2016-2024. Matan created several pieces for stage and video through the company’s “Dancer’s Create” programs. His film ‘Composure’ screened in festivals worldwide and was nominated and awarded prizes. Currently, Matan studies philosophy in the Open University, teaches dance and Gaga- Ohad Naharin’s movement language, and is a diligent practitioner of Vipassana meditation and Iyengar Yoga.
Noa Yafe born in 1978, is a graduate of the Bachelor's program and second degree program at the Midrasha School of Art at Beit Berl. She has held solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv, at the Artists' Studios, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, the Bat Yam Museum of Art, and more. Her works have been displayed in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received several scholarships and awards, including the Artis Fellowship, Outset, the Rabinovich Foundation, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Fellowship, and the Lottery Art Council. Her works are held in public and private collections.
