Asaf Ben Zvi: Forgetting Almost Everything

Disasters—ecological, personal and natural disasters—which were Asaf Ben Zvi's primal focus of attraction and repulsion, have become colorful fields, with motifs such as a cross, a jerrycan, a hornet, moth or bird, symbolizing fragile human existence in eternal struggle. Later, the word penetrated the painterly array, and Ben Zvi's work became a reflection on the personal, the public, the local and the universal.