Ha Yom

Presentation at BAI, February 2025

This installation presents a grid of small-scale works on paper or fabric, each capturing vase forms that exist between recognizable vessels and uncontrollable stains. Created with fluid, runny media, the forms are highly malleable and unpredictable, bleeding through the material like veils—translucent layers that both reveal and obscure. The fabrics themselves possess an aged, archaeological quality, as if unearthed from the ground, bearing the patina of time and memory. Each piece records a momentary spilling, an attempt to contain everything within the fabric in a short amount of time before the medium escapes or dries.

Arranged in a systematic grid and pinned directly to the wall, the works are catalogued like artifacts in a museum exhibition—each object determining and preserving a specific moment in time. This museological presentation relates to the concept of Ha Yom—"this day" in Hebrew—the eternal present moment that is both fleeting and undying. Each work becomes a testament to an irretrievable instant, where ancient materiality meets immediate gesture, and where containment and release exist simultaneously within the archaeological veil of the fabric.