We moved on → | An exhibition in the Nadbach 25 series

Opening hours: Monday–Thursday, 10:00–18:00; Saturday, 11:00–14:00; Sunday and Friday—closed.

A braided rope, thick at its beginning and gradually narrowing; sewing pins threaded across the surface of a wall as though it were fabric, paper, or leather; peeling wallpaper revealing its reverse side, dusted with reddish sand; a deserted urban landscape, grainy and blurred, in black and white, printed by a thermal printer.

The works of Nitzan Ben Zimra capture fragments, remnants, and scraps of everyday reality, in which the remains of something that once existed and no longer does continue to roll along. Perhaps it moved to the next street or to another country, or perhaps it simply crumbled. Her delicate and precise touches imbue these remnants with mystery and elusive, fragile life, dispelling their desolation. There is something on the threshold of nothingness.

The practice of photography is a central anchor in Ben Zimra’s work, an integral part of the rhythm of everyday life—almost a reflex. During the recent tumultuous and destabilizing period, she began photographing with a “printing camera”—a simple automatic camera that prints each photograph on thermal paper, like a tax receipt. Her gaze is drawn to an environment dominated by neglect, poverty, and disintegration, while the photographs are slowly emitted like a scroll filled with ephemeral images, destined to fade and disappear soon. The camera/printer generates images through heat, in a kind of scorching, and its products appear burned and filled with visual “noise,” which only emphasizes their naked silence. From among these, one photograph was scanned, enlarged, reprinted, and given a new chapter in its life.