Vortex of Separation Film

The film Vortex of Separation was screened at the center of the Seven Winters solo exhibition. It opens with a journey through the museum itself. The entire exhibition space, along with the sculptures on display, was meticulously reconstructed using a 3D program, based on their exact real-life measurements. The film presents a 16-minute journey in which the viewer descends into the depths of the collective subconscious, depicted as a vast underground field. Metaphorically, the film functions as a complex architectural tool that both represents the structure of consciousness and enables its expansion.

The viewer’s eye moved like a ghost through the architectural expanse of the exhibition, roaming over every detail of the displayed sculptures. Unbound by physical constraints, it approached the sculptures from multiple angles, penetrating the subconscious of each object and animating it in a unique way.

Thus, the film functioned as an extension of the act of sculpting. The camera descended and moved through the museum’s floors, then ascended into spaces resembling an open, infinite cosmos. At the same time, it plunged into a deep, ancient, and distant underground realm that opened onto a field of endless oil barrels.

The field contained matter represented in ink—the medium from which the drawings were made. Though abstract and invisible, this matter was essential and formed an integral part of the gallery’s visible structure. The central movement in the film traced the rise and slow diffusion of raw subconscious material, which gradually surfaced and permeated the structure of the exhibition itself.

A screen measuring 8 meters high by 10 meters wide was exhibited as a central element of the Seven Winters installation during the solo exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2013.