For everything, there is a season

In his first solo exhibition in a decade, Eliyahu Fatal – an established Israeli artist and the former director of the Art Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design – is dealing with questions of identity through 30 portraits that reflect his everyday work environment: the studio, its neighboring streets and the nearby market. As the name of the exhibition suggests, Fatal is harnessing the museum space and the various mediums he works in to measure time, distance, places, depths, statuses, values and personal as well as national memories.

 

His work spills outside the museum, where the pathway and the building itself have been encircled and marked by green wallpaper. Packing boxes, ready-mades and still photographs are some of the materials Fatal has worked with or manifested, turning the structure itself (including not just its walls but its floors and exterior as well) into a playground where his aesthetic and personal investigation plays out.