Sidewalk Ponds

Plastic bottles and containers are all over, being used to collect wasted air condition water.  I see them as miniature mobile water gardens on the cityscape: streets, shops, restaurants, and nearby building entrances. The installations Water Lilies Garden to Go draw on the notion of those miniature pond .gardens, and the concept of water ponds with water lilies as the core of the classic garden

In October 2010 the installation Water Lilies Garden to Go #1 was installed in the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv, populated by work migrants and asylum seekers mainly from Africa. The containers with the Water Lilies were to be situated in the heart of an Olive grove. A temporary Olive grove that was hastily planted by the city municipality, in order to prevent unlawful seizure

Garden to go

Mobilizing Water Lilies garden is a paradox, a contradiction in terms.  A strident political act similar to the mobilization of an Olive grove. Nevertheless, uprooting and displacing Olive trees, has become a routine

Ars poetic Garden

Water Lilies Garden to Go #2 is a reflexive comment that challenges the concept of the garden. It emphasizes the tension between permanence and immobility on one hand, and ethereality and  temporality on the other hand, as a water lilies pond and olive groves are at the heart of the garden

The garden is a hybrid

On the inner court of Inga Gallery in Tel Aviv, Water Lilies Garden to Go #2 is an interpretation of the Israeli dream of a private garden. The installation points to the duality of Israeli existence that alternates between the stable and the ephemeral. The installation addresses the Israeli garden, with its promiscuous aesthetic, as a hybrid of an army base garden and Monet's Water Lilies garden