Layla Layla
Nurit Agozi Weiner
Curator
Every night, when I was singing a lullaby in my daughter’s room, I imagined other mothers doing the same thing. Lyla Lyla (Night Night) is a sound installation for a choir of women who – alone and together – sing Pizmon La’Yalinton (Song for the Hyacinth). Written by Lea Goldberg and composed by Rivka Gvili, the song has been sung by Mothers for 80 years.
The work consists of a composition of recordings. Nurit Agozi Weiner recorded 13 women, each in the bedroom where she puts her kids to sleep. The work sets the gaze on one among many everyday acts – a moment of dedication to the song, falling asleep, the last moment of the day before leaving the children’s room and returning to yourself. The composition places the mothers in one space – individually, as a duet, a trio, or a choir. It demonstrates the hive, the invisible ties, and the connections between all mothers. It gives a visual image to the choir of mothers while also showing each mother in her loneliness.
olympus
director
Olympus is an innovative program for young artists and designers who completed art, architecture, design, performance, and dance studies; people seeking a flexible, singular platform to develop, expand, and refine their creative work. The approach blends various tools, techniques, and vocabularies designed to expand fields of action and help to develop and refine the creators creative vision. We aim to create an innovative, creative learning experience, supporting creators in their journey to find and boldly pave their way in the world with curiosity, agility, and responsiveness.
www.schoolofthecity.org/olympus
3.3.22-5.5.22
Tal Alperstein Interior
“Being Space Itself”
exhibition curator and designer
The dreams and the things that make up our most private space, our apartment, are the focus of the exhibition Interior. Over the past three years the artist Tal Alperstein has been conducting an ongoing exploration into the way in which our living environs are designed. In her apartment she set up a laboratory of sorts staging different types of apartments. She used her camera to document the sense of time and distinct character created by each space, the way in which individual rooms behave, and the subtle choreography of the actions that take place in tandem in separate spaces. The result is a trilogy of short films, featured in the exhibition, which offer a poetic reading of the fantasies, emotions and constraints that compose our living environments.
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אל הים الأيام Alayam
מאי עומר ماي عمر Mai Omer
exhibition curator
We are looking at a documentation of the Menashiya neighborhood as it was filmed by the poet and landscape architect Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer) moments before its last remaining residents were evacuated in favor of the Charles Clore Park. Designed by Hillel, the park is documented fifty years later by his granddaughter Mai Omer.
In Hillel’s documentation the pleasing and naïve images show a lively and happy place a moment before it vanishes – alleys and streets, houses, birds, people strolling at leisure on the shore. Winter, rain and a blue-black sea.
Haaretz hebrew edition/1
Haaretz English edition
Haaretz hebrew edition/2
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מאי עומר ماي عمر Mai Omer
exhibition curator
We are looking at a documentation of the Menashiya neighborhood as it was filmed by the poet and landscape architect Ayin Hillel (Hillel Omer) moments before its last remaining residents were evacuated in favor of the Charles Clore Park. Designed by Hillel, the park is documented fifty years later by his granddaughter Mai Omer.
In Hillel’s documentation the pleasing and naïve images show a lively and happy place a moment before it vanishes – alleys and streets, houses, birds, people strolling at leisure on the shore. Winter, rain and a blue-black sea.
Haaretz hebrew edition/1
Haaretz English edition
Haaretz hebrew edition/2
