Israel

The installation Rose of Nothingness was inspired by Paul Celan’s poems, primarily the image of black milk, a symbolic liquid that conjoins life and death, matter and spirit. Black water drips into a rectangular pool, creating a quiet space of framed emptiness that invites contemplation and lingering presence. The pool evokes ink, a symbol of writing and memory, thus binding the artistic experience to collective consciousness.

The work’s installation in Venice, the city where the Talmud was first printed, charges it with resonance as a living, open and continuously evolving visual text. As such, the installation unfolds in the tension between presence and absence, calling for engagement with the experience of time, memory and sustainability.