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Reflection

Reflection is an audiovisual installation that was installed in the historical Pool of The Arches in Ramle. The Pool was inaugurated in the year 789 under the Muslim rule of the region as part of the city water supply system.

The artwork focuses on songs that are being sung simultaneously in Hebrew and Arabic and heard through 8 speakers hung from the ceiling of the Pool. Circular images are projected on the walls of the pool. The projected images are based on ancient musical instruments photographed while being played: drum skins and a decorated rosette filmed from the inside of an Oud. The installation emphasizes the Pool of the Arches’ unique aesthetics and the movement in space – rowing through the water, creating moving ripples – while visitors listen to the different musical sections.

Reflection is based on popular Arabic songs to whose melodies Jewish cantors set Hebrew words, creating piyyutim (Jewish liturgical hymns) expressing love of God and yearning for the Redemption. The Arabic love songs are identified with popular singers, such as Fairuz or Sabah Fakhri. The melody is the same, thus hearing the piyyutim and the songs simultaneously, creates complex harmonic relationships between the Arabic and the Hebrew voices.

Reflection, a project of CACR Ramle, is curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.

Musical Arrangements & Director: Yaniv Raba || Vocals: Yahala Lachmish, Dema Kablan, Gil Rabi || Oud: Yaniv Raba || Percussion: Roei Friedman || Mix, Additional Production: Aviad Zinemanas || Cinematography: Nadav Porat-Chomsky || Installation photos: Ron Peled

Shomer

Shomer is a large-scale multimedia installation that includes video works, projection pieces, printed posters and 3d-printed sculptures. The work dismantles and reassembles the structure and the story of Magen Abraham synagogue in Beirut to explore concepts such as authenticity and preservation, and their relationship with human memory.

Barik

Barik, a refugee from Darfur, fled his home as a child and arrived in Israel alone as a minor. Th tells the story of his escape, and recreates his traumatic journey through audiovisual means, using foley studio recordings and binaural field recordings.

Latent Heat

Latent Heat (2025) is a collaborative sound project by Dor Zlekha Levy and Aviad Zinemanas that brings new life to the sculptures in the garden of the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Composed of five sound works, each piece of the commissioned project interacts with one of the garden’s sculptures by renowned Israeli artists, creating a multi-sensory experience. Museum visitors can access the sound works through a dedicated online platform and listen to them on headphones while exploring the sculpture garden.

The artists approached this project by engaging in long walks through the garden, listening to the silent sculptures, and revealing the hidden sounds within and around them. Through research and dialogue with the living sculptors and the legacy of those no longer with us, they created an autonomous artistic experience that reveals the latent energy and secrets within the materials. Latent Heat invites visitors to experience the sculptures in a new way, transforming the space into a resonant, multi-sensory encounter.



Wall Piece

Wall Piece is a site-specific projection installation occurring in the space between the artist’s studio and the wall of a building viewed from his window. The artist photographed the wall under different lighting conditions, compiled the photographs, and processed them digitally. The complex, layered images that were created are projected back onto the wall from the studio’s window.

The neglected wall, which stands completely dark during the night, is then exposed through the projection. Its central formative elements – the window frame, the remains of dripping white wall paint, the peeling plaster, the crumbling bricks, the plastic tubes – are also repeated in the projected images, creating a range of optical illusions. In a feedback loop, the wall resonates itself and becomes infinite, a prolific ground for artistic action and a new perspective, which reconfigures the familiar urban space.

  • The wall, before Wall piece, in the daytime
  • The wall, before Wall piece, in the nighttime

Wall Piece was created in Artport Tel Aviv as part of a year-long residency program, and was first exhibited to the public as part of ‘Exit Strategies’ Public art festival in Tel Aviv.

Amor

Amor (2019) is an audiovisual composition made in collaboration with musician Aviad Zinemanas. Amor is the artists’ personal interpretation of the emotional state that is referred to in Portuguese as Saudade – a longing for an absent someone or something that one cares for and loves. The video work focuses on fragments of human expressions and gestures. Several-seconds film fragments have been vertically cropped and heavily slowed down until they dismantled from their specific identity and bleed into color and motion.

Click here to watch the mobile version of Amor. Please make sure that you watch it on a mobile device (smartphone, tablet) that is placed vertically, preferably in a dark room.

Click here to read a short text about Amor, written for the presentation of the project at Room25 exhibition space by curator Hagit Werner.