West with the Night

The show was named "West with the Night" for the book by Beryl Markham, the first pilot (and female) to cross the Atlantic east to west non-stop. Because the show revolves around loss, distance and the longing for a tangible connection out of reach, it seemed appropriate to give it a name that conveyed expanse, movement and direction.
My Father bought this book for my sisters and I when we were little girls, and even as a child the title evoked in me a sense of dark excitement, imagining the main character crossing forth in an unfamiliar abyss, as if in a race against fate.

The gallery space and its relation to its surroundings became pivotal in this work: situated on a beachfront street on Tel Aviv's western edge, the gallery faces opposite, to the east, looking onto the gray street. Standing in the gallery space with my back to the sea- yet so close to it, became content in a project that already dealt with longing, missing and the urgency of crossing a breadth.
Comprised of 3 interior spaces and spanning out to the street, the show concentrated on bridging distances by means of wishing space into condensing. The installation in Room No.1 shows a grounded aluminum boat containing ice melt that accumulates every day, the growing quantity of water acting as a measurement of passing time over the course of the show. Room No. 2 is a see-through installation, created as a lookout onto the outer surroundings, its objects made of glass in an effort to merge with the street beneath it by reflection and transparency.
The foyer of the exhibition houses the freezer where the blocks of ice were made, with a hunk of raw clay that resembles a horse's head. Across the street from the gallery, glued to a wall surrounding a construction site and visible from the outlook of Room 2, a poster of a the artist's drawing; two horses with riders storming at each other at the moment of collision.