Department of Visual Communication
The Exhibition is open during Musrara Mix (28-30.5 from 19:30-23:00 PM)
Advisor: Guy Goldstein
The Department of Visual Communication is participating in Musrara Mix 2024 with four students.
After reading the festival’s theme, we analyzed it and explored different theories and associations related to time. Each student presented an idea for a personal project that responds to the concept of time. The outcomes take on the foreboding presence of the clock in our lives, explore spiritual time through a Kabbalistic analysis of the letter Aleph, touch on the long and draining wait for the return of the hostages through the changing proportions of the yellow ribbon, and simulate spacetime and duration theories.
Shahar Fishhendler
My work explores various aspects and theories of time: time as linear movement, parallel time, time as subjective reality, chaos theory and more. Projected on split screen, the video animation unfolds different scenarios about a subject that moves through time, trying to present and illustrate the complexity of these temporal perceptions. The use of animation, which addresses the duration of time, the utilization of every static frame to create movement, and to the timeline is integral to the attempt to offer a graphic visuality to the abstract conceptions of time.
Esther Biberfeld
The clock is ticking, ever-present, demanding its due.
The work’s point of departure is the image of the hourglass. Unlike digital and analog clocks, the hourglass is used as a timer, which counts down and subtracts the remaining time and the elapsed time. My clock exaggerates this visual aspect, and breaks down the amount of time represented by the sand into many IV bags, which drip and flow time from one to the other. Little by little they are drained, and at the end of the festival, time is left in a pile on the floor.
Lilach Moskovich
How Much Longer
A three-channel video installation focusing on one object: the yellow satin ribbon, which has become a very familiar image recently. Each screen focuses on the performative action of the yellow ribbon, pushing the limits of its movement. The idea behind the work is to change the configuration of the yellow ribbon as a loop with a specific and recognizable size, into a continuous and extended ribbon. The performative actions in the video are analogous to the perception of time, the distance of time, its continuity and its infinitude.
Tal Natan
The work delves into the Hebrew letter “Aleph” א, through the Kabbalistic and Jewish mystical texts. There are many texts that discuss the formal, mystical, and spiritual analysis of each letter in the Hebrew alphabet and its function. I choose to focus on the letter “Aleph” which is the origin, the beginning of creation. The letter Aleph is divided into an upper “Yod” (י) symbolizing spirituality, the letter “Vav” (ו) as a diagonal symbolizing the path (the temporal axis), and another lower “Yod”, which faces down and symbolizes physicality.
I create a typographic tapestry that has no beginning, middle, or end. A jumble of information, commentary, illustrative graphic elucidations, graphs and diagrams that describe and analyze the meanings of the letter Aleph and its Kabbalistic symbolism. The viewer’s eyes that wander across the (manual) typographic tapestry, can pause at any point in this space and enter the text through it.
