How can vitality be recognized and created in art, when the artistic act by its nature freezes, formulates, and frames?
Placing a live performance inside a gallery intensifies this paradox: everything that happens in the space is immediately crowned as “art,” sharpening the gap between the liveliness of a fleeting moment and the symbolic death that comes with fixing it in place.

“Giant Transparent Body” exists within this tension. It yields to the temptation of turning the “ordinary” or “everyday” into something “beautiful,” while questioning whether aesthetic redemption might also be a form of violence or erasure of the thing itself.
 

Our lives here are almost always framed through their vulnerability, through the awareness that they may come to an end. From within this reality, the work gathers moments and details that tend to disappear, and places them at the center - not as distraction, but as another way of being with what is.

The work operates in a space of in-between states: just before an action, just after. Objects in the gallery - plastic chairs sunk into the floor, a shirt without a body - make present what is absent. The work does not represent absence; it exists through what absence leaves behind.
 

The images in the exhibition place the viewer within a field of memory and body, without directing the gaze toward a single point. Here, the elusive and the partial are at work: movement that disappears, effort that leaves no trace, attention to what does not settle into form - everything that escapes the eye yet remains in the space and in the body.

What is fully present can be understood, processed, closed, forgotten. But what does not fully materialize, what resists becoming a single fixed form, opens a space in which something continues to act: searching for meaning, lingering, attempting to complete itself, aching, remembering, inventing.

Bosmat Nossan - Choreography

Created and performed by:
Matan Daskal: Soundtrack design and original composition
Eran Shani: dance, costume design, keys, and giant shirt
Amit Tina: dance
Mila Levi: dance
Ofer Laufer: lighting design, construction, space and chairs
Tom Lambersky: production and management

The Living Gallery of the School of Visual Theatre
Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
Producer: Tom Gorenberg Yarkoni