In Upside Down Book the artist’s hand is holding an image. Here Fatal offers a contemporary tribute to “Nine Out of Four Hundred: The West and the Rest” (1997), artist Meir Gal’s canonical work. In the original photograph, Gal is seen holding the only nine pages concerning the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa that appear in the book The History of the Jewish People in the Last Generations, and his gaze is penetrating, accusatory and admonishing. In the work Upside Down Book, Fatal holds the nine pages as if they were the trunk of a mighty tree, or else a flower presented either as an offering of reconciliation or a slap in the face. The filling inserted among the pages, meanwhile, is garbage gathered off the ground in the Carmel Market at the end of the day. Petel creates a classic work of protest, and by inverting the order – that is, doing away with the power of gravity – seemingly restores history to its proper place.