Perhaps it is no surprise that many of the works on view pursue issues related to the experience of temporary relocation, such as global tourism, intercultural dialogue,or foreignness.The installations and performances of Angela Fette employ a pastiche of styles and art-historical references to engage with the artist’s position in the world as well as with a universal sense of wandering across space and time. Nir Harel‘s works focus, among other things, on the experience of the wanderer and random encounters. Both Leunora Salihu and Barak Ravitz explore the novel materials they encountered during their residencies. Christoph Knecht‘s display combines the wonder cabinets of old and a modern living room, conjoining works from the museum’s collection and objects influenced by both Oriental and European sources. Alex Wissel documents in varied ways his voyage from Europe to Israel in a mobile home he devised with Jochen Weber. Rafram Chaddad reconstructs, through smells and tastes, a sense of home in a foreign environment. Alma Yitzhaky engages with local images while tackling the way her home country appears from afar, in another country, on the television screen. Jens Pecho‘s work tackles the tension between absolute belief in our ability to change the environment to fit our needs and a sense of utmost exclusion from it. To others, the art residency served as a catalyst to a confrontation with the history of a place. Both Uri Gershuni and Gil Yefman explore their temporary place of residence in light of its loaded history. Sebastián Mejía refers to the problematic notion of the White City of Tel Aviv by roaming the streets of Jaffa with his body painted white.

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