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The Permanent Temporary

2026


Sculpture, used planks and stabilizing hardware


240 × 160 × 100 cm


Forthcoming in City on Troubled Waters

Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Curated by Nir Harmat

Opening 13 November 2026

The work presents a fragile, elevated structure assembled from remnants of different kinds of wood and supported by a system of slender, irregular elements. The variety of timbers, dimensions, and directions gives the structure the appearance of having emerged gradually through accumulation, improvisation, and adaptation, never reaching a final or resolved state.


Raised above the ground, the structure also evokes the image of a lifeguard tower: a place from which one can look into the distance, identify danger, and perhaps offer protection. Yet the structure itself remains exposed, improvised, and dependent on a precarious system of supports. This tension between a place intended to provide safety and its own need for support gives the image an inherent ambiguity.


The house ceases to function as a symbol of stability and security, becoming instead a temporary and ongoing condition, a space suspended between shelter and observation, protection and vulnerability, the threat of collapse and the insistence on remaining upright.


The work resonates with an urban and human reality in which stability is never given, but must be continually reconstructed through adaptation, balance, and multiple points of support.

The work presents a fragile, elevated structure assembled from remnants of different kinds of wood and supported by a system of slender, irregular elements. The variety of timbers, dimensions, and directions gives the structure the appearance of having emerged gradually through accumulation, improvisation, and adaptation, never reaching a final or resolved state.


Raised above the ground, the structure also evokes the image of a lifeguard tower: a place from which one can look into the distance, identify danger, and perhaps offer protection. Yet the structure itself remains exposed, improvised, and dependent on a precarious system of supports. This tension between a place intended to provide safety and its own need for support gives the image an inherent ambiguity.


The house ceases to function as a symbol of stability and security, becoming instead a temporary and ongoing condition, a space suspended between shelter and observation, protection and vulnerability, the threat of collapse and the insistence on remaining upright.


The work resonates with an urban and human reality in which stability is never given, but must be continually reconstructed through adaptation, balance, and multiple points of support.

The Permanent Temporary

2026


Sculpture, used planks and stabilizing hardware


240 × 160 × 100 cm


Forthcoming in City on Troubled Waters

Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Curated by Nir Harmat

Opening 13 November 2026

The Permanent Temporary

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