The Sweet Water Canal 2017
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The exhibition centers around several paintings and objects that were taken by an Israeli soldier from an Egyptian home in the Yom Kippur Warâ€. ‬Decades laterâ€, ‬the soldier†‬‮–‬†‬who became a painter and was my professor†‬‮–‬†‬was surprised by the resemblance of my works to the paintings he took from the Egyptian painterâ€. ‬He shared the objects he had taken with meâ€, ‬which led me to search for†‬cultural and artistic associations between Israel and Egypt’sâ€. ‬
‬I created a tribute to the anonymous Egyptian painterâ€, ‬displaying the original objects looted from him alongside his recreated desk and Coveted Objects for Plunderâ€; ‬These are hybrid reconstructions based on the loot taken by the soldierâ€, ‬and†‬“Egyptian”†‬commodities brought from the British Museum’s gift shopâ€. ‬
The exhibition setting refers both to the views of the Sweet Water Canal depicted in the drawingsâ€, ‬and to the artifacts looted from Egypt which are still displayed in Europeâ€. ‬
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*The Sweet Water Canal, also known as Ismaïlia Canal, carries fresh water to the settlements near the Suez Canal.
*The exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of Asylum Arts, Via Sabra, and Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv