Labyrinth – Roger YchaÏ Benichou, 1941–2021

The Exhibition is open during Musrara Mix (28-30.5 from 19:30-23:00 PM) at Canada House back yard.

“Based on these reflections, I decided to construct a huge work, in which I gathered my small works, my drawings, my paintings, and through which I wished to grant myself freedom…”
Roger YchaÏ Benichou

“Labyrinth” is a sensational exhibition created in homage to the Jerusalem musician, poet, and interdisciplinary artist Roger YchaÏ Benichou. In his last years, Roger YchaÏ conceived, planned, and worked on an ambitious total artwork. He envisioned a womblike space, where the art will embrace the visitor on all sides. For complex reasons, this work has been shelved and is now unrecoverable. The exhibition uses the extensive estate left by Roger YchaÏ, which includes paintings, collages, objects, video art, performance scores, poetry and musical pieces, to create a labyrinth which is in fact the maze of Roger YchaÏ’s rich and complex life, since his migration from Algeria to France and Iran, and from there to Israel. The exceptional exhibition covers all the walls, ceiling, and floor of the space with the artist’s works, and in the process, touches on the question of the sad fate of artists’ estates in our time.