In his solo exhibition ‘Goral Echad’, Amir Fattal seeks to present the relationship between war, trauma and artistic development. Fattal follows the biographies of architects, artists, actors and photographers in order to explore aesthetic style in the context of ethics and politics.
In the main installation 'Light and sound structure' Fattal shows a tower-like object that transmits text from Herzl's utopian novel “Altneuland” converted into Morse-code through LED and sound. The structure is a reference to the word 'Tel' as a type of archeological mound created by human occupation and abandonment of a geographical site over many centuries and also to the Hebrew translation of the title of novel - Tel-Aviv.
Different narrative of utopian ideas and artistic movements especially in Germany in the first half of the 20th century are put into question and Fattal is following the parallel activity of artists who left Germany and artists in the service of German propaganda.
Curator: Liora Belford