Netta Lieber Sheffer: Shattered Hopes and Roads not taken

Via monumental charcoal drawings of boats sailing in empty space, carrying figures and symbols from the past, the artist traces ideas that have been pushed to the margins—including Herzl's utopian vision for the Jewish state; the diaspora as an ideology in the Bundist vision ("Wherever we live, that is our land!"); the yearning to return to the biblical way of life, while skipping over 2,000 years of exile; the Canaanite attempt to connect the Jewish nation to the local space based on ancient Hebraism; the roots of the link between the Jewish, Mizrahi, and Arab identities.