“The experience will be really great, because now I have the chance in an old building, not a modern one, like the Israeli Pavilion,” the artist, a winner of the state-issued Israel Prize, said. Fainaru and Bar-Shay previously worked together on the 2024 edition of the Mediterranean Biennale in Haifa, which featured a work by Fainaru that the Times of Israel described as a wall clock that is “set to turn backward, for that wish to go back in time, to October 6.” “The meaning of the installation emerges in the tension between one drop and the next, between presence and absence, calling upon the viewer to become an active participant in an ongoing experience of time, memory, and consciousness.”
Author: Alex Greenberger
Published at: 2026-01-12 22:37:16
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