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Room on the roof

location: Trumpeldor 97, Petach Tikwa

The work “Room on the Roof” is a site-specific installation created in the apartment of Toni Chen, located in Petah Tikva, Israel. Toni, who was 92 years old at the time of the work’s creation, immigrated to Israel from Benghazi, Libya, in 1949. In 1973, she received a gift from her son, Shimon (Simo) Chen—touristic prints he purchased in Kenya, created by the artist Heidi Lange.

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Chair from the Dining Room
year: 2025

The work “Chair from the Dining Room” is a crafted ready-made piece. The chair, originally from Tony Chen’s dining room in Petah Tikva, has undergone numerous alterations and layers of paint over the years.

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Drawers 111168
year: 2025
Carpentry: Ayala Shamir

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Keys
year: 2025

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2019-2024
year: 2024
location: Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem
role: curator and exhibition designer

2019-2024 is the name of the graduate exhibition of the School of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. It was held at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. The exhibition features works from across six different theme-based classrooms, a showcase of student models from mid-degree students at the school, a catalog of works, and a listening area featuring sound art.

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Sound balcony
year: 2024
location: Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem
role: curator and exhibition designer

Design of an outdoor balcony in the Bezalel building in the city center of Jerusalem as part of the graduate exhibition of the School of Architecture 2019-2024. The balcony, covered with white flags, functions as a facade for the exhibition that can be seen from the street. The balcony itself was covered by a large rest area made of soft black foam boards. The rest area played sound works made by students from the department of new music in Musrara school.

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Zvi Hecker: sketches gestures from father to daughter
year: 2024
location: Libling house, Tel Aviv
curator : Sabrina Cegla
role: curating assistant, part of the exhibition designing team

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Spring Water
year: 2023
Exhibition
location: Edmond de Rothschild Gallery, Tel Aviv
In collaboration with architect Roi Duvik
curator: Noam Alon
assistant Curator: Shir Vizel
role: exhibition designing In collaboration with architect Roi Dwek

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Company - A Side
year: 2022

The project "Company" focuses on Caesarea, examining its unique place in the Zionist-Israeli narrative. Unlike other lands once owned by the Rothschild family before the establishment of Israel, Caesarea’s lands were never transferred to the state and are still privately managed by the "Caesarea Development Corporation." Instead of donating the land, the company makes an annual contribution to educational and cultural initiatives throughout Israel.

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Cloude to Ground
year: 2023
Exhibition
location: Giardini Gardens, Venice Art Biennale
curators: Oren Eldar, Hadas Maor, Idit Kopsky
role: research and production team partner

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Museum of tolerance
year: 2023- current

The starting point for the Museum of Tolerance work is the building of the Museum of Tolerance which is still under construction and is located in the center of Jerusalem. The building's physical and economic characteristics, its relationship to the environment and the land, constitute a point of reference for a story that extends to California, golfing greens, Italian paving stones, but it also remains domestic through the story of Moshe Barzani and Meir Feinstein and the Jaffa orange. Using architectural tools, these histories and stories are melted, interwoven and contradict each other.

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The waiting room
year: 2021
In a collaboration with arch’ Avirail Miodownick

The waiting room is an outcome of mapping the performance of waiting, and eventually translated into a scenographed based space.the space is established by the relation between the waiting action to the moment it stops. The research for that project took place in a clinic’s waiting room, where we analyzing the ambience, the actions, the objects and the physical surroundings.

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Company - B Side
year: 2022

The project "Company" focuses on Caesarea, examining its unique place in the Zionist-Israeli narrative. Unlike other lands once owned by the Rothschild family before the establishment of Israel, Caesarea’s lands were never transferred to the state and are still privately managed by the "Caesarea Development Corporation." Instead of donating the land, the company makes an annual contribution to educational and cultural initiatives throughout Israel

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The Egyptian Novel

The Egyptian Novel was written by Orly Castel-Bloom and published in 2015. In the book, Castel-Bloom tells a family story, one closely aligned with her own family's history, beginning with the marriage of Charlie and Vivian in Karkur in the 1950s and ending with the death of a close friend in Tel Aviv in the 2000s. Despite the attempt to chronicle the family's history, this effort repeatedly fails as the family tree is constantly disrupted by marginal and false details embedded in the biography. The novel is presented as fragments of events and places, pieced together, making it difficult to discern clear connections between the chapters. It narrates history as through the back door: the kibbutz is portrayed through the experience of being expelled from it, political revolution is filtered through personal experience, and the expulsion from Spain is narrated through staying in Spain and raising pigs

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Missing
year:2021

This project was created in response to Operation Guardian of the Walls, during which the IDF carried out strikes in the Gaza Strip for 12 days. The project depicts four buildings that were destroyed in Gaza as part of the military "roof knocking" procedure. These four buildings are drawn as whole and intact, as they appeared before their destruction. The "roof knocking" procedure, first implemented by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead, is used on buildings that house Hamas forces as well as civilians. As part of the procedure, the IDF calls the civilians in the building to warn them of the impending strike. A small missile is then fired near or onto the roof, followed by a bomb that demolishes the building

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