A performance work for the Schecter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Bar Yerushalmi, 2024

This work stems from the song “A Dove with an Olive Leaf” by Talma Alyagon Rose,  among the founders of the “Peace Now” movement, and specifically from the phrase “Break out of the picture, restore the faith.” During the war, this poem brought me to write a text that became a performance ranging from a lesson to a drawing, a melody, a prayer, to a cry. The text, written as a stream of consciousness following the alphabet letters, deals with the image of the dove in human and Jewish culture.

As part of the performance, I conducted a live drawing action – a replica of Picasso’s 1962 drawing “A World Without Weapons,” created for the World Peace Congress in Moscow, following which the poem “A Dove with an Olive Leaf” was written. I’m tracing an iconic work of art and bringing it into this present time. Through this action, I distinguish between text and image – what is the difference between a world without weapons and asking a dove to break out of the picture?