Yael Bartana’s work "Wall and Tower" is the second in the “Polish Trilogy” following her earlier film "Nightmares" from 2007. In "Nightmares" Sławomir Sierakowski, editor-in-chief of "Krytyka Polityczna", spoke to the empty Dziesięciolecia Stadium, encouraging Three million Jews to return to Poland.
This prophecy is fulfilled in "Wall and Tower", where Jewish settlers build an isolated settlement in the square facing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. The work presents a vision for the future of Zionism and the Jewish People in which the European-diasporic possibility is re-introduced to the current agenda.
On the other hand, the fulfillment of this vision, in many respects contradicts the Zionist ethos of a national Jewish center in the land of Israel / Palestine, is implemented by the reenactment of the Zionist early settlement in Palestine.
Thus, using models and procedures from the 1930s in Palestine, Bartana’s work emphasizes certain impossibility in imagining a future detached from the Zionist past.
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
