A horse train is carrying TV monitors that show filmed documentations of humans and animals in migration and nomadic travel. Benni Efrat, active over four decades as artist-prophet – and not solely in his own town – raises here, as in many of his works, some penetrating questions in reference to both the enterprises of humanity and nature within the context of destiny, morals, politics, science, art, and communication. The viewers attending the horses’ procession become participants in a short and improvised wandering route that echoes the endless migration journeys this world has seen and is yet to see.

Ararat Express – Autumn 2034 was first performed in 1986 at the Lyon Biennial of Art (France), and in 1995 at the Johannesburg Biennial of Art (South Africa, curated by Meir Aharonson).

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