For the artists exhibiting their works, the city is a natural landscape in which they live and create. It is an inseparable part of their beings, and as such, the examination of it comes from within, and not through ideological glasses or through a prism of “the great outdoors.” The exhibited installations focus on the here and now, while recognizing that urbanness is the modern person’s reality. The city is a formidable cultural creation, more complex than a random collection of people and technological means: streets, buildings, streetlights, electrical wires, and telephone poles; more than a collection of institutions and organizations: courts, hospitals, schools, the police, and municipal services. The city is an infinite compendium of forces and processes. Yet actually, understanding the system does not automatically yield understanding of the uniqueness of its totality; there is no one understanding of the city but a collection of meanings, each of which lies within the myth that unlocks the private laws of the city.
Participating artists: Chen Sheinberg, Vadim Levine, Liron Lopo, Maria Pomiansky, Ilya Rabinovich & Loan Nal, Anat Weintraub, Steve Stanza, Ricarda Dinzar, Gregory Chatonsky
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