Neta Moses | Looking at the Suns
Curator: Sofie Berzon MacKie
A wooden dollhouse comes to life within the gallery, in a sequence of memories or daydreams. The house was built for Moses by her father during her childhood, a nucleus of love having sketched the lines and squares, the windows and openings.
A video and sound installation projected onto and within the various rooms expands beyond the house’s boundaries, through arched windows and vacant rooms. The little house extends beyond itself, maintaining the memory of drops on a window, parched roadside landscapes, a sun shattering into pieces. A neon sign reading Happy Days illuminates the gallery wall with a soft, ice-cream pink hue, then suddenly appears in one of the house’s rooms. The duplication encompasses this story’s two major rooms – the actual room, and the poetic dreaming room of the little girl and the house, tucked away in a secret bay within time.
The house reveals its life’s materials at a pace that keeps expanding and contracting. Some materials belong to the artist and her twin brother – sound artist Guy Moses, with whom she worked on the exhibition – yet some belong to the house itself. It is now the house which dreams through time, slipping out of its small, corporeal confines, releasing its geometric form to the entire cosmos’ realms. The world of spirit and imagination once fed to it by the young Moses is now bestowed back to the artist by the house itself. It retains a blazing sun for her, it is the axis around which the suns circle, at times it is a window, at times a gate, at times it is a fire, at times a sea.
Within the motion of expansion and contraction, the house’s dream unfurls recursively, moving inward whilst growing outward, heading towards a cosmic fixed point*, a quiet, steady anchor. It is the still point of the turning world which allows all other materials to change within it, and it is realized not only in the invisible heart of the house’s axis, but also amidst the twins who worked on the exhibition together. In the dreaming world, there are two sibling-suns, and between them, a little wooden house, a bench in the attic overlooking the horizon, and never-ending stability.
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* Fixed point: In mathematics – a point which a function leaves in place, and which does not change its position as a result of spatial transformation. For instance, when a sphere rotates around its axis, the points located on the axis remain in place. These are the fixed points.
The Be’eri Gallery would like to thank Studio of Her Own for its cooperation, and for transferring the exhibition’s core to us.
