The Direction of the Water / A guided tour between three rivers

A tour through three exhibitions that define water as an artistic element and as raw material for the poetics of space. In these exhibitions, water is not merely an object but a mechanism — a means that directs the experience and enables a renewed examination of the relationship between environment and personal or collective identity

We will visit exhibitions that present different approaches to the aquatic element: Ariel Hacohen: By the Rivers, Joshua Neustein: You cannot step into the same river twice and the chapter Airship in the Israeli collection exhibition Material Imagination: Inflamed Nerve. In all three, water serves as a model for exploring place, history, and material experience.

Neustein constructs an artificial river through sound in a dry landscape, activating the viewer through the gap between what is heard and what does not exist in reality. Hacohen, by contrast, uses an operatic aria and physical components in the gallery to examine belonging to both physical and conceptual space. They join the dialogue in the Airship chapter, which returns art to its raw foundations and asks the viewer to engage a full sensory apparatus — not only vision, but an attentiveness to material and to the direction in which it moves.

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Note: This tour is in Hebrew only.
Tour led by Museum guide.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the tour includes entrance ticket to the Museum.

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Image: Diti Almog, 10:00 A.M OUDMR (detail), 2001