Exhibitions "Naama" and "Every Available Place from Me"

At the exhibition, Naama, researchers Daniel Zini and Yair Mus explore the myth of the flood as a myth that exists in Jewish culture but also in other cultures such as Mesopotamian, Greek, and in the mythologies of Native Americans, India, and China. Their research reveals common elements in the myths across different cultures that expose a transcontinental and transcultural connection and point to something that lies at the foundation of human development - the potential in catastrophe for renewal and repair. The role of the myth, in many cases, is to calm and provide an explanation for natural phenomena and extreme events that are beyond human understanding, as is the case with the flood myth.

In the exhibition "Every Empty Place," Meni Kalachnik offers a warning about the impending flood through large-scale charcoal drawings. In her works, the flooding and water central to the flood myth are transformed into concrete, artificial light, and asphalt. Materials characteristic of the urban space, where residential buildings, skyscrapers, tunnels, and street lighting physically invade the valleys and forests, spaces of nature and the habitats of wildlife.

As a result of the flooding, the spatial dichotomy becomes distorted: the city invades habitats and natural spaces, and wildlife emerges into the urban space. The spillover between the spaces creates unplanned and surprising encounters between wildlife and humans. These physical encounters - face to face - are characterized by conflicting feelings of anxiety and wonder at something familiar yet strange and mysterious at the same time. Freud referred to these feelings as "the uncanny" and argued that they create a crisis of trust of the subject in reality, characterized by repression that seeks to manifest as anxiety.

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