Curator: Daniella Talmor

The exhibition “Life is a Cabaret” welcomes the visitor into a site specific installation that is especially designed to the unique space in which it is placed. This installation turns the Old Jaffa Gallery into a stage where marionettes are moving in a play of form, color, texture, movement and sound. The figures pull and push, draw near and reject, and create relations that move back and forth from the harmonious to unsettled disharmony, forming dynamic hierarchies and a constant change in the balance of forces.

The images in this installation were created in mixed techniques, designed skillfully from a variety of re-used materials like old clothes and rags, sawn on wire nets and filling materials or on pieces of old, broken furniture, which, in the recycling process, move from the practical into the artistic. The exposure of the inner structure of the marionettes invalidate the human illusion, creating the surreal atmosphere that emerges in the gap between reality and illusion…