Deganit Berest is one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Visual Arts (2005) and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2007). She lives in Tel Aviv.
A wall.
A blunt wall of human backs, arms, legs.
A gray bulwark with white round stains.
A defeated army in a cave, before maneuvers,
Waiting for doors to open.
Not cages unlatched, in uproar.
No…
Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…
In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…