Situation-Installation

The artistic interaction in the Wadi Nisnas Project stems from the basic character of the place, with its human texture, its urban components, and the social issues dealt with at the adjacent Beit HaGefen (House of Vine) as a center of Jewish-Arab culture. The art encounter, which is comprised of many elements, material and spiritual, enables the participating artists to present their works in an open framework which makes perceptible the removal of the barrier between what is seen as elitist art and populist art, between intellectual statement and ethnic artistic expression, between “noble” and “poor” materials, between center and periphery, between contemporary and traditional approaches, with the aim of creating meeting-point which in the viewer’s eye will connect into a colorful weave where, without the warp, the weft will have nothing to hold on to.