The second graduation project of the Yona Fischer Program for Curatorial Studies and Museology of the Institute for Israeli Art of the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, run by Idit Amichai and Osnat Zuckerman Rechter, guided by me.

The consequences of human activity on our planet, namely the unconstrained exploitation of its natural resources, shape the ecosystems that will determine the conditions of life on Earth. In 2000, with the growing understanding of the human impact on the environment, a new definition of our ecological time has emerged – the Anthropocene. The immediate effects of this realization can be seen in the destabilization of the modernist perspective, and in the reformulation of the human-nature relationship from a more humble position.

The exhibition proposed to examine the current period and the challenges it poses. ReWilding refered to the scientific term related to the rehabilitation of ecosystems and to the different approaches advocating for the return of wild nature – the afforestation of agricultural fields and the restoration of species.

Characterized by biological, botanical, and geological sensibilities, the featured works presented different possibilities of blurring the line between the animal and the human spheres, integrating the natural and the artificial, and shifting the physical towards the metaphysical. The need to find or invent new life forms brought forth hybrid creatures, figures and ways of life that resonate the incongruence between man and nature.

Artists: Nivi Alroy, Hila Amram, Einat Arif-Galanti, Michal Baror, Michal Blayer, Benni Efrat, Anna Fromchenko, Pesi Girsch, Keren Gueller, Alma Itzhaky, Moran Kliger, Dana Levy, Ella Littwitz, Assi Meshullam, Sivan Nishri, Mona Oren, Ronen Raz, Noa Raz Melamed, Tomer Sapir, Yael Toren, Sagit Zluf Namir