see through, 2020
Single-channel video, 25 min

The Ein Shemer Greenhouse, built in the 1970s by land artist Avital Geva, migrated to the Venice Biennale as Israel’s pavilion in 1993. That same year, critic Sarah Hinsky tied the project to Zionist power, an ecology reproducing colonial practices, where the Palestinian environment is banned and the greenhouse walls border Europe. Returning there, I found less a scientific lab than a stage for symbolic performance: inhabitants speaking of Tikkun Olam, rehearsing environmental virtues and aestheticizing biology. Working with performers, I aimed to inhabit this contradiction, responding intuitively to its speculative images, even to something as fragile as water lettuce.