A white porcelain cup resting on the shoulder of a vintage coat sets the exhibition’s starting point: a moment where an everyday object is pulled from its familiar logic and begins to operate within a new relationship. For years, Dina Blich has collected objects—houseware, clothing items, and industrial materials—without any hierarchy between the expensive and the cheap, the traditional and the contemporary. Her selection is not driven by their material value, but by their ability to carry traces of use, of touch, of a body that is absent yet still resonates. The memory they hold is not personal but open, allowing every viewer to project their own story onto it.
Blich, who comes from the world of theatre and performance, creates situations in which the objects function as actors on a stage frozen in time. The scenes she assembles do not tell a closed narrative; they create a margin where the viewer is invited to complete what is left unsaid. This is a space where logic is not cancelled but gently bent, opening other possibilities.
The works are not installations in the classic sense, but rather scenes that were halted moments before something happens or moments after something has already occurred. The viewer enters the space like someone who arrives late at a party that has ended or too early for a show that has yet to begin. In this space, between the preceding and the subsequent, the real work takes place.
Working with ready-made objects echoes known artistic traditions, but Blich does not seek to defy or break conventions for their own sake. She aims to create a parallel world—one where objects exist as presences with gravity, as points of buoyancy for memory and time. They do not tell a single story but enable a multitude of possible narratives.
“Cloud Catchers” is a name that precisely describes the impossible feat Blich attempts to perform: to capture something fluid, fleeting, and intangible. The objects shift according to the viewing angle, the lighting, and the viewer’s mood. Ultimately, the exhibition is not about the objects themselves, but about what lies between them—the gaps, the voids, the stories we tell ourselves to fill the emptiness.
In the end, what remains are not the answers. What remains are the questions: What was here before we arrived? And what will be here after we leave?
Curator: Shira Silverston
Opening: Saturday, 2.5.2026, 11:00
Gallery talk: Friday, 5.6.2026, 11:30
“An Unseen Banal Act 2″ Performance: Friday, 12.6.2026, 11:30- For registration
Dedicated with longing to Honi Hameagel. In participation: Dina Blich, Leora Wise, Hezi Shohet, Michael Engel
Closing: Saturday, 13.6.2026, 14:00
