Multi-channel video projection, looped
November 2018 – February 2019
The Israel Trail Procession is a video project on a grand scale, responding to the hard and confusing times we are experiencing as Israelis today. The pressures of politics, conflict, a shift in identity in a time of crisis, as well as the unrelenting burden of history are re-encoded in images and characters both distant and near, forming a vision of potentially emblematic status.
The Israel Trail Procession takes its cue from The National Israel Trail, a 1,000-kilometer cross-country hiking route that runs from the Lebanese border all the way to Eilat. Relatively new, the trail (‘Shvil Israel’) was inaugurated in 1995, but clearly connects to a much older Zionist ethos of “conquering the land with ones feet.” Carmi and Heiman turn this feature of the modern state of Israel into an eccentric parade of walkers of different ages that seem to belong in a time outside time – a cross between post-apocalyptic descendents of present-day Israelis and a tribal troupe belonging to ancient, obscure times.
(Drorit Gur Arie, curator)
An excerpt, one screen click here
Catalog, click here (Hebrew, then English)