From distress to hope

Water - the most important resource for living on Earth. Many people in the world do not know what clean water is and quite a few people open a tap and get out of it dry and thirsty. The problem of water scarcity is common to the whole world. Israel, a breakthrough country that offers its citizens and residents of the world advanced technological solutions for efficient utilization of dwindling water resources. A point of light, hope and optimism.

Exhibition groups of works:

1. The artists of early Israeli painting were impressed by the thorns that grew on the barren ground and the relentless summers, which were so contrary to the landscapes of their fresh green countryside. They were confined to the landscape of the Judean Mountains, which they did with the subject of their creation and later on the theme associated with painting in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition begins with an engraving printed three times in three different shades of desert and next to it a well of sand and rocks photographed at the depth of Ramon Crater. In contrast to these descriptions from the desert, the exhibition presents images of flooding and destructive rains in infrastructure areas.

2 Water wells are the only chance of physical existence in the desert. Around them were community points that existed in social, spiritual and religious order and also in economic order, from the time of Abraham our father onwards. Later man learned to use various water carriers such as canals and pipes to allow life in places far away from the water source and thereby increase living areas and crops. Since then the standard of living has risen steadily, forcing man to continue perfecting the technology for obtaining water in order to sustain life on earth.

3. The salt from the Mediterranean, a byproduct of the desalination process and the Dead Sea industrial product, is the work of art used by three artists who exhibit in the exhibition and alongside them are photoshopped photos of photographs taken in a desalination plant that draws water from the coastal aquifer and transforms it into potable water for human, animal and irrigation purposes. .

4. Blood tubes are living tubes and without the blood flowing into our veins, human and animal life will not exist. In religious ceremonies of ancient peoples the blood and water and alongside them wine and oil occupy an important place in the religious worship held on the altar.

5. The connection between water and politics is represented here in only one work in the "Red Line" installation, where 22 representatives of Arab society in the Middle East are invited to discuss their water problem together with us. This installation was done in the hope that solutions to common problems would give rise to cooperation and perhaps today's peace of truth.

As the exhibition opens, an eighteen-month journey has come to an end and a new journey is underway, ahead of the next exhibition that will be all about water and politics.

Raya Kidder, curator of the exhibition