The exhibition looks at the growing tendency of contemporary artists to adopt the “archeological metaphor” as an artistic practice that strives to expose and preserve ideas, objects of research, and different ideologies through the action of excavation. Their action seeks to unravel the threads woven by the patience of historians by multiplying differences, blurring lines of communication, and trying to make the passages more difficult and thus more challenging.

Artists: Ilit Azoulay, Maayan Elyakim, Olivia Hild, Patrick Hough, Ronnie Karfiol, Jason King, Matan Oren, Peles Empire.

Patrick Hough, And If In A Thousand Years, (still from video) 2017, HD video, 22:14 min., courtesy of the artist and Jerwood/FVU Awards