A cluster of works as part of the group show The Poision Path, Schecter Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Bar Yerushalmi , 2024

Poisoned Consciousness (Death to the Arabs), Writing and Erasing, Kohl Stone from Casablanca (“White House,” my mother’s hometown) on a white wall, 2024

On my way to school as a child, I passed daily by a blue graffiti sprayed on a public building wall. Between two Stars of David lay the words “Death to the Arabs.” I remember the feeling of being exposed to something poisonous that I could not contain. I know that the moment the graffiti was engraved in my mind was precisely the day I walked by it, and it was erased. In a Kohl stone, I write the sentence again and again until the stone is perished.

The Kohl was used as eye makeup and protection against the evil eye; later, it was discovered as blinding and poisonous. These two stories are woven into one work in which I repeatedly write the same sentence that poisoned my soul until the stone wears away. Then I erase the inscription, which becomes an abstract painting, the crumbs of the Kohl lay beneath. I arrived at the gallery regularly to continue erasing the stain, as a ritual act that seeks to exorcise a demon.