"Magical Realism" challenges the explicit picture of reality and ranges from ethics to aesthetics. Its essence is a productive, value-based, aesthetic and ambitious position of the artist, and it is used in the exhibition as a characteristic from which people work and create in the gallery laboratory in Afula.

The exhibition was created as part of the "Local Legend" project led by Oz Zluf and Merav Sudai. The project formed a group consisting of professional and amateur artists and artists, multi-age and local cultural leaders. These create out of a sense of mission and change the cultural-artistic map in Israel, based on geosocial power centers. The artists come from all over the Jezreel Valley with its various settlements, development cities and towns, Arab villages and settlements, agricultural moshavim and kibbutzim.

The group works while critically learning the field of art, and its members create out of a commitment to change in an alternative ethic to the prevailing one: challenging the artist's isolation, dealing with the artist's exclusivity in the work, anti-commercialism and forming an active, political and social position in the work of art.

Featuring: Jackie Serrero, Masha Dov, Michael Shapira, Anna Zarnitzky, Alessandra Acherano, Guy Moshiov, Keren Geller, Dafna Markman, Roni Rachav, Eyal Friedlander, Tirza Kafri, Ora Reuven, Aviva Grofit, Edith Pruim, Orly Amit , Iris Barnea, Hagit Shaham, Chen Mizrahi, Tuvia Cohen, Yehudit Rivko, Yaffa Kornet, Kalanit Malkin, Liat Roth, Liron Ohayon, Miri Lahav, Nitzan Rivlin Feldman, Sima Levin, Adi Shani, Rachel Aharon, Rei Raviv, Thelma Nevo, My Dadon.

This project has been supported in the past year by Mifal Hapayis, the cultural movement and the Afula Municipality.