First and foremost, Ana Wild is an artist of words. She is interested in the connections between language and meaning, and tells stories from the forgotten past and the unknown future. Her works explore various forms of learning and knowledge, appearing as text, object, or event. They offer mythologies that wander in peculiar ways to the present, where Wild presents how worlds can be created ex nihilo, out of nothing. Her creative practice stems from meticulous yet playful research, gathered and embodied in a performative action, where the transfer of knowledge takes on a wondrous artistic form of shared imagination.
Her new work, Miraculous Aspects, deals with a moment of revelation. During one of Moses’ wanderings in the land of Midian, he encounters a vision: a burning bush that is not consumed, from which a divine voice emerges. This is the moment when Moses becomes a prophet, and the starting point for the redemption story of an entire people. In Wild’s work, the burning bush is a destination in a journey that can be reached through a surrender to the miraculous dimension, inviting us to believe.
Out of the darkness of the everyday and the obscurity of reality, Wild creates illusions born from words and sounds, all existing in the black void of the theater. Bodiless voices resonate throughout the space, creating environments, actions, and scenes within it. By stripping away the visual elements of the stage and relinquishing what is seen, space is created for the non-visual image formed by language, allowing a story of faith and imagination. At a certain place in the desert, at a specific time of day, the sun sets behind the mountain, illuminating a rock. There, you may believe the bush is burning, beyond the event horizon.
The dark theater is a space of consciousness where the body merges with the spirit, and the seen with the imagined. Here, the audience gathers for a shared moment of revelation, invited to say yes: yes to the make-believe, yes to the wonder, yes to being together.
*Please note that the work is in Hebrew with no translation
Miraculous Aspects will be on display between July 5-18, 2024
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 16:00-20:00
Friday: 12:00-16:00
Entrance will be possible every half an hour
