Twice As Good: Tours of Two Exhibitions on Tuesdays / A River Runs Here: A visit to the exhibitions Muhammad Abo Salme: Cascade and Netta Lieber Sheffer: Shattered Hopes and Roads Not Taken (in Hebrew)

Two imaginary water sources lie at the heart of this encounter. One is an immersive installation that simulates a mighty waterfall, the other is an imaginary river bearing symbolic boats. Through these two bodies of water, the exhibitions raise questions about physical space and the social and political fabric of the country.

Cascade is a site-specific installations in the Lightfall space at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. It consists of thousands of meters of metal bead chains of the sort commonly associated with a soldier’s dog tag and these days with the families of those abducted by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023. It is a monumental and symbolic mobile, hanging in the very heart of the Museum. In addition to its captivating appearance, Cascade also harbors a formidable force that threatens to collapse in a catastrophic release. It is a monumental and symbolic mobile, hanging in the very heart of the Museum. In addition to its captivating appearance, Cascade also harbors a formidable force that threatens to collapse in a catastrophic release.

Conversely, Netta Lieber Sheffer, Recipient of the 2023 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, engages with past paths of Jewish existence, by revisiting key historical junctures in the issue of Jewish identity and settlement before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Through monumental charcoal drawings of boats floating in an empty space, bearing figures and symbols from the past, Lieber Sheffer traces ideas that have been cast aside, such as Herzl’s utopian vision of the Jewish State; Diaspora as an ideology in the vision of the Jewish Bund movement; the aspiration to return to a biblical way of life while disregarding two thousand years of exile; the Canaanite attempt to connect the Jewish nation to the local region based on the notion of an ancient Hebraic identity; and a reexamination of the roots of the links between Judaism, Mizrahi identity, and Arab identity.

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Note: This tour is in Hebrew only.
Tours led by educators.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
The tour takes place near a secure space.
Participation in the tour includes entrance ticket to the Museum.