PVC - The Kitchen

The kitchen was a sculptural installation measuring 14 by 4 meters, with a height of 1 meter. It consisted of structured ceramic units and wooden cubes adorned with acrylic-painted drawings. The installation depicted a scaled-down city composed entirely of kitchen units, inspired by the artist’s family kitchen in their apartment in Ashdod.

On one level, the installation references the architectural trends prevalent in Ashdod during the 1970s and 1980s, which gave rise to a distinct style found throughout Israeli cities, particularly in Ashdod. On another level, this “kitchen city,” with its central core, functions as a three-dimensional model of the soul, branching infinitely outward from the center in multiple directions.

The center of the installation comprised minute details whose visual echoes faded towards the outer circumference. Another part showed diagrams of cakes in the form of three-dimensional sculptures merging the statistical/anonymous world with the specific subject structure.

For years, the artist worked alongside her carpenter father in his workshop in Ashdod, building kitchens tailored to the unique character of each family. This installation dealt with the kitchen as a spiritual platform for all life processes and an energetic transformation field. The kitchen installation was accompanied by a series of drawings called House Work, documenting the recurrent activities of the artist's mother in the domestic environment, as well as a series of photographs of sunsets at the Ashdod seashore.

6th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey