The exhibition “In-attention” was presented at the concluding conference of “The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture” Research Group, part of the Mandel Scholion Research Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The group’s members: Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi, Prof. Gal Ventura, Prof. Yael Levin, Aysheh Maslemani, Tamar Kojman, Sara Kopelman. Hadas Schlussel and Nitsan Israeli.

The exhibition, which took place in Hansen house, sought to challenge our ability to direct our attention inwards and outwards by inviting us to wander through the worlds of two artists: Avivit Segal and Yehudah Roth. While each of them walks a different artistic path, both tread the line between inside and outside, natural and artificial, construction and deconstruction, and both create spaces out of the images, ideas, memories, and emotions resulting from attention and deep focus processes. These spaces and the objects they contain and consist of represent a displaced past that relates to the present and affects the future.

The exhibition revolved around objects that opened up spaces where the unseen is made visible, enabling visitors to have interactions that lie outside the scope of the known and familiar, and outside the gallery, two new spaces were set up to represent the circle of life and death.

Curator: Yifat-Sarah Pearl