This exhibition was born from a dialogue between the two artists throughout the last year.
Its subject matter revolves around liminal sites in the West Bank and along the Jordan Rift Valley.
The exhibition draws its name from this region, once known as “the land of pursuits” (eretz ha’mirdafim). The area eventually became a no-man’s-land under Israeli state custody. It remains captive in a moment of historical indecision, which appears to have been overshadowed by interim territorial agreements that instill the temporary within a crooked space of illegality. The works deal with sites that reflect possibilities for radically different forces to mutually dwell within a provisional, hyperactive intermediate zone.
The volatility of these sites, and their durable existence as ruins, constitute a fitting starting point for the attempt to rethink the post-catastrophic landscape. The works are intersections of political circumstance and aesthetic action, in search of new forms of expressing the spatial and experiential effects of calamity.
