What happens to artistic creation when war becomes a prolonged reality—at home, at the front, and in between?
Beit Avi Chai’s exhibition brings together works by five notable Jerusalem-based artists, created over two turbulent years, from the massacre and surprise attack on Israel on Simchat Torah 5784 through the ceasefire on the eve ofc Simchat Torah 5786. These were two Israeli years whose events, in any other country, might have filled decades of history—events that met artistic practice in different ways: directly or indirectly, explicitly or abstractly. Executed in diverse media—painting, drawing, photography, and print—the works offer a window into the artistic workshop: instinctive responses that investigate and probe, registering moods and emotions that breached the protected space of the studio and fractured it.
Featuring: Meydad Eliyahu · Raya Bruckenthal · Noga Greenberg · Elkana Levi · Alon Kedem
Beit Avi Chai CEO: Dr. David Rozenson
Curators: Amichai Chasson & Rika Grinfeld-Barnea
Production: Eyal Levit, Orly Haim & Shachar Montlake
Design: Dov Abramson Studio
