Encounter at the installation Zadok Ben-David: People I saw but never met (Hebrew)

Encouter with the curator Mira Lapidot

The installation People I Saw but Never Met includes more than six-thousand figures of men, women and children. These are people that artist Zadok Ben-David had seen during his travels around the world—in a market in Kazakhstan, on the streets of Tokyo, near his studio in London, on a beach in Tel Aviv, even in Antarctica—but had never met personally. Something in their presence—a facial expression, or a momentary gesture—caught his eye and made him take their photograph. He then sketched these photographs with pencil and later, by using photo-etching, he turned the sketches into a thin metal cut-out painted in black. The installation includes thousands of these small figures standing at equidistance on a bed of sand stretched across hundreds of meters, making for an intricate human landscape.

Spaces are limited.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum.

—

Please note that on Tuesdays and Thursdays the Museum closes at 9 pm. We recommend arriving prior to the scheduled encounter if you want to visit the other exhibitions on view.

—

The Museum follows Green Pass guidelines. Therefore, entry will only be possible upon presentation of certificate of vaccination/recovery, or negative COVID-19 test result. Children up to the age of 3 are exempt.