​Bleached White City | 2015
1 chanel Video projection  (mapping)  
Location| Nabulsi well-house, Neve-sha'anan, Tel-Aviv

Continuous video screening of hands painting a surface in white. The work was projected on the well-house of the Nablussi family – which was a wealthy family and owner of many orchards – and is standing abandoned since 1948.
That well-house is located in a neglected South Tel-Aviv immigrant quarter, and the painting action relates to the long abandonment and debasement of the house by its surroundings. Do the anonymous hands try to repair it or to erase it? The work was inspired by the work of the theoretician Sharon Rotbart as it appears in his book "Black City White City", in which he critically relates to Tel Aviv being branded as a "White City" as an expression of its European nature. However, the city's quarter known as Neve Sha'anan is conceived as "a black hole", an area not included in the city's branding, and which actually reflects the opposite. Therefore, the aggressive manner in which the painting is performed in the video, presents itself as an attempt to "white-wash" the structure's existence.



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