Lucky Numbers, 2009 - 2010
A project of unprecedented proportions takes place at the kibbutzim surrounding the Gaza strip: the construction of hundreds of additional
security rooms to kibbutz members' homes. There is something captivating about the visibility of this large-scale project. The tranquil
pastoral kibbutz gave away and transformed overnight into a big building site. The complete chaos fascinated me, together with the
numbers marked in color on the houses. The numbers hunted me, awaking dormant demons and remind stories I heard at home from my
mother and grandmother about The War and the Holocaust…It generated a type of existential fear, survival fear.
The ubiquitous chaos, the piles of sand, the red numbers, the gaped windows – all these generate an inexplicable sense of existential
anxiety within the silent, pastoral settlement. The photographs are surprised, it is precisely the chaos that is concealed in them and must
be sought. There is deception, and one must trace the problem beyond the picture’s pastoral quality. The viewer is faced with the sight of
an idyllic landscape that contains an interruption – both mental and physical.