Site of Tolerance #1- The Confession Booth
Video Installation and Photography
Curator: Hagai Segev
The Peka Gallery for Experimental art and Architecture, Technion, Haifa 

The installation is a micro cosmos of emotional realms providing an insight on the way one regards the "Other" in the society. The site reflects their continuing focus on the territory of human unmediated interaction that is becoming so rare in our society. The exhibition is an attempt to touch the complexity of an encounter that holds alienation, distance and caution alongside with physical intimacy, vulnerability and loneliness. The exhibition is built as a “confession booth” for the visitors that are invited to examine their perception of the world, their prejudice and judgmental way in which they observe the ‘other’. U Asked Me To Dance (video installation) Lital is lying on her back, trying to move in a circular movement inside a defined circle of stones. The name of the video indicates a dialogue with someone. The projection on bricks confronts the image with a structure, and emphasizes the effort the woman makes to keep moving in that defined circle. U Bring Nothing But Heaviness To My Life (video projection) A group of four soldiers are standing solid, static. A fall of light flickers is flowing from them and periodically vanishes. These sparkles are an adaptation of the emotional reality that brings us to look for love, intimacy and human warmth and ends with shattered dreams and expectations. This work shifts the soldier image from the battlefield to the field of relationships. Blooming (Prints on wax paper) This lit series of colorful waxed-paper prints in Perspex is a result of a documentation of the bruises Lital got during her dance. The scars and bruises become an abstract and transforms into beauty. Intimacy is Lying On Our Bed (projected slides and poster-size photographs) The portraits of men in this project are the outcome of a series of encounters. The men came to the artists’ studio to be Lital’s nude models. The location was always the bed. The purpose was to explore how a complete stranger becomes intimate through observation and conversation that mostly led to intimate confessions. Almost The Most Alive I Ever Felt (video installation) The video that documents a performance of Lital in a striptease club is projected inside an installation called “Girdle”: two walls stitched together, forming a thin slit through which the visitor can try and watch the video projection.