Dystopia

Dystopia is a nightmare come true. It gives form to a profound dread – long preceding the events of October 7th, 2023 – of a violent eruption within the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The work is built from salvaged electrical-niche doors, filled with fabricated sabra fruits (polyurethane), a symbol with which the inhabitants of the land of Israel – Israelis and Palestinians alike – have long identified.

In this work, the sabras bear small thorns that lengthen and sharpen as the flesh of the fruit decays. They press outward, break through their enclosure, and threaten anyone passing by. Violence, hatred, and the swift abandonment of humanist and universal values in favor of hollow nationalist slogans are haunting the world at large. Dystopia seeks to sound an alarm that reaches beyond the local.