Variations (Amud Anan)
3-channel video-sound installation, 2016–2017
In Variations (Amud Anan), real and fictional elements merge, reflecting mythology, geopolitics, and the tension between the two. Israel’s southern desert becomes a stage for security paranoia, liquid realities, and spectral apparitions.
The biblical “pillar of cloud” (Amud Anan) once guided the Israelites by day during the Exodus, a manifestation of divine presence. Millennia later, the term resurfaced in 2012 when the Israeli army named its eight-day military operation in Gaza “Pillar of Cloud / Amud Anan,” following the targeted killing of Hamas’s military chief and a wave of retaliatory rocket fire. This repetition binds divine guidance to destructive force, mythological iconography to contemporary violence, producing a dissonant collapse of meaning.
The installation stages this tension across three projections: two envelop a corner wall, while a vertical smoke column—projected onto a transparent surface—rises endlessly, linking floor and ceiling in a spectral stream. The space oscillates between revelation and erasure, myth and militarism, offering a meditation on how symbols migrate between the sacred and the political.
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