Bi-bli-o-logia: The Book as Body
Curators: Drorit Gur Arie, Raphael Sigal 26.11.2015 - 26.3.2016

The notion of shtiebelekh is presented through the visualization installation, which quotes, reconstructs and interprets various sources. Roman Vishniac’s images of traditional rooms of study and prayer merge with contemporary shtiebelekh in Jerusalem, which are intertwined, by means of spatial and architectural abnormalities, with Magritte’s paintings and traditional Jewish hermeneutics, ritual objects and emblems. The special light of the mystical book received by Noah—the “Zohar in the Tzohar” which he installed in the ark—shimmers here from within the depths of the dark space underneath the shtiebelekh staircase, shedding a light that touches, assembles, transforms and resurrects the different parts of the work. This ark is ready to sail on through broken horizons.