This exhibition was created at the end of COVID times as a graduation project (guided by me) 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.  

The isolation, the sickness and the seclusion, revealed a crack in the social fabric as well as in our private lives. The sense of shattering, the uncertainty and lack of control, led the students under my guidness to re-examine the concept of “the Abject” of the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, a term that transformed in front of our eyes from a philosophical theory to harsh reality.

Most of the works selected for the Old Jaffa Museum’s historic space – painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and video – have been created in the last three years, addressing feelings of instability and in between states of mind: queer hybridity, ritual action, gender, national and material undermining.

Featuring artists: Hannan Abu-Hussein, Riki Elkayam, Moran Asraf, Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Yael Ben Shalom, Shmuel Goldstein, Tama Goren, Tamar Hirschfeld, Tamir Chen, Shahar Yahalom, Tamar Lederberg, Roni Landa, Yael Meiri, Debbie Margalit, Assi Meshullam, Amir Naveh, Tamar Nissim, Emi Sfard, Sima Kirshner, Shanee Roe, Tal Shoshan, Leeor Shtainer.

Curatorial team: Jenny Aharon, Rachel Ohana Amos, Rinat Aldama Terre, Melhem ​​Bader, Natalie Ben Ari, Ehud Becker, Shirly Barlev, Mor Barak Rivlin, Orly Gal, Shlomit Divinsky, Shir Wiesel, Noa Taub, Maria Malach, Michal Mudrik , Michal Markovich Roth, Nili Naor, Pnina Neuman, Yarin Spinko, Tal Amram, Yuval Etzioni, Tom Pima, Olga Kremer, Adi Pappo, Yael Schuster, Miriam Shapira.