Sukkot in Bnei Brak

During the seven days of Sukkoth "One should make the Sukkah your principal abode and your house a temporary dwelling",The work relies on photographs taken in Bney Brak during Sukkoth 2005.

The entire urban texture is modified in this crowded town during the holiday. The sukkahs are built in the limited public spaces between the buildings. Most of the sukkahs are built within terraces on metal constructions as expansions to the residential flats. The sukkahs use up every little piece of open skies since the mitzvah is to build the sukkah beneath the open sky. The work is consisted of photographs recording the poverty and ugliness: old plywood boards, rough iron, slovenly laid cloths and mats, scaly plaster and the plastic shades so typical to the Israeli landscape.  

In this work the photographs were symmetrically multiplied time and time again. We've created hyper-symmetrical environments and imaginary structures; symmetry grants the random environment with an exaggerated order. The work with the symmetry and multiplications is inspired by the traditional decorative sukkah paper decorations. The work is also inspired by fantastic distant landscapes like Japanese temples, French gardens and floating houses.

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