Project Details
Co- creators: Lila Chitayat, Daniel Zarhy | Sound: Emmanuel Witzthum | Video: Eitan Vitkon
Project: Site specific pavilion at the Ayumi galery, Tokyo, with the Israeli Embassy Japan, Arieh Rosen, Hansen House & Jerusalem Design week
Project Description
a site specific installation transferring the intangibles of Jerusalem to Tokyo at the Ayumi Gallery. sounds, stories, visions and moments of the Jerusalem city are spread along the installation. Using QR scan, you are invited to wander through Jerusalem, in Tokyo.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Cicero
Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities dating back thousands of years, is a vibrant, inspiring and complex city. Time is set in a different way, letting the past echo into the future. Every layer of the city, carries an abundance of stories and memories which all blend into extraordinary daily encounters and colorful situations.
We created a library – an experiment to capture the essence of a place for experiencing a remote and diverse culture. The library offers a glimpse to the kaleidoscopical moments of Jerusalem, to specific situations, moments, languages, traditions and sounds spread around the garden and under the tree of the Ayumi Gallery.
The typical Jerusalem dome (appearing 2048 times only in the old city of Jerusalem alone) is re-interpreted: from a solid dome it becomes an ephemeral one, built from a series of poles creating its distinct silhouette. Each pole represents the abundance of moments, colors, situations and stories the city carries. Please feel free to wander inside the installation, sit under the tree, meditate with sounds of the city and collect moments of Jerusalem.
October 24th 2019 – September 31st 2020
Using QR scans, visitors are invited to unveil and experience a fraction of the city, and its intangible qualities: from smells of plants, to local sounds, spoken stories and rituals. The map of Jerusalem is scaled into the garden letting each QR reveal a site specific & moment in time according to its real location: moments from the east are situated in the east side of the garden, moments from the west will be found in the west.