Thursday  |  22.6  |  20:00 - 23:30

Saturday   |  24.6  |  18:00 - 21:30

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The shared quality between all the homes and objects presented in this exhibition is that they feel both familiar and foreign simultaneously. Similar to situations that Freud popularized as Uncanny, the videos, sculpture, and VR works in the exhibition attract us to our memories of houses and their objects. At the same time, the unknown, the E-Byte (no home or island home in Hebrew) essence of them, may irritate and even threaten us.  The artists in E-Byte are searching for the elusive feeling of homeliness and use technological and digital tools such as 3D scanning, modeling, and VR glasses to create intimacy on the one hand, and disorientation on the other. The results are homes that never stay still, but rather move and evolve based on the political reality, the economic situations and the computerized algorithms, staying true to the Zeitgeist.

Displayed works

Panicutopia - Desert ark

Gali Blay

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In his critique of the novel Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, Theodor Adorno used the term “Panicutopia”. He looks at the capitalist regime which rose in the US in the beginning of the 20th century, and how it changed the perception of utopia. Before it, utopia was perceived as a hope for a different reality or a better social life. However, since the capitalistic system the hope for a different reality has changed into a dream for commodity. When the hope turned into a materialistic dream the opportunity to develop a new way of living became impossible.

On October 2015 the Desert Ark community was created by Yael Gotman and Safi Hosh. It is a community which disconnected itself from the government infrastructure, created an alternative way of living and a new vision of security, in the shape of a rock. Due to Their extreme measures of safety their utopic home turned into an environment where fact and fiction, panic and utopia collide.

Home

Yotam Rozin

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Home is a dark and eerie night stroll in the outskirts of the Israeli village. Walking through fields, encountering animals, abandoned buildings, and old ruins, the viewer is confronted with the unknown - the mysterious regions close to home and the uncharted territories of his own mind.