World's Edges
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A multi-faceted, polygonal structure consists of twenty-four paintings on cardboard depicting wild nature landscapes throughout the country: Golan Heights, Mitzpe Ramon, the Dead Sea area, and more. These are fragments of the natural landscapes devoid of any human habitation. Chefetz documented these places during his travels over the years, choosing them to assemble a kind of temporary shelter: a makeshift home, reminiscent of improvised cardboard structures, built by homeless people on the streets of large, dense cities. Despite its massive size, the structure is delicate, calculated, fragile, and almost prone to disintegration: though its base is made of an iron frame, the various paintings, light and portable, are connected to it only by magnets, and can detach from it at any moment.

Around the structure, metal studs were attached to the gallery walls, normally used as a framework for drywall construction. The plaster walls - an inherently temporary, quick, and changeable architectural solution - are absent. The studs are completely exposed, representing the inner parts of a structure, but are not stable on their own. Their appearance evokes processes of dismantling, demolition, renovation, and construction; A multitude of intermediate states of "before" and "after" the existence of a home. The positioning of the studs creates squares and rectangles of various sizes on the walls, twenty-four in total: each corresponding exactly to the size of one of the twenty-four paintings making up the structure in the center. Like windows blocked by the gallery wall, they waited for the end of the exhibition, when Chefetz, in a performance act, dismantled the structure and returned each landscape to its designated window.