Gallery talk at Benyamini Center: Friday, 3/5/24 at 11:30
Closing: Saturday, 1/6/24, 14:00
In the exhibition, In the Land of the Bird People, Orah Ayalon deals with the disintegration of civilization from different angles and at different stages of collapse. She presents an installation, a model that consists of internal politics, inspired by the book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, that expopses the hierarchy between rulers and those that are ruled, the winners and losers, everyone that cooperates with a hidden system. Adjacent to this work are totems made of parts of old works with printed logos of new networks and mass media. Time has dismantled them, indicating how the promise of a utopian world and free access to information and connection between people has become a dark corner of fake news and manipulation. Orah joins the shards with clay and metal and creates a new object; a monument to commemorate disappointing promises.
