黑料不打烊

In his new solo exhibition, Foundational Sights, Itzik Badash presents an installation made of industrial oil drums he inscribed with original handwritten texts. The work, made of cheap, available materials conversant with the Want of Matter Israeli art movement, explores the a-canonical and excluded cultural space of the Mizrahi traditions of Jewish communities from Arab countries, with which Badash engages in his body of work. The oil drums Yemenite Jews used as percussion instruments in their mourning practices represent an ethnic musical tradition, while evoking the rundown tin constructions of the Ma鈥檃barot, temporary housing compounds for the waves of new immigrants of the fledgling State of Israel. Badash has memories of this shantytown of provisional slums from stories of his family members living in Netanya. Some of those constructions are still planted in the local landscape as mute remnants of this long-gone era.