A hybrid wooden structure, between a prayer chapel and a barn or a makeshift cowshed, is the backdrop for a journey along personal stories, like a haunted movement between an inner world and concrete reality.
In Tamar Ooserhof’s new work, the multifaceted structure is simultaneously a theater stage, a cinema, and a public hall, serving as an arena where stories are recounted through music, video, and live performance. In this place, which travels through time and space, Oosterhof opens windows into her worlds. Her multidisciplinary works are based on surreal and magical juxtapositions of ready-made images and a fanciful inner world, drawing inspiration from her own life between Amsterdam and Kibbutz Yizre’el. Oosterhof’s works have the essence of a fictional ritual, allowing seamless shifts between personal imagery and an intimate collective experience.
Tamar Oosterhof graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem, and Bezalel MFA program. She is the curator and manager of Night Stroll Gallery, a space for nocturnal art in Haifa, and served as curator and artistic director of Art in Oost festival in Amsterdam. Oosterhof has had solo shows in Afula Municipal Gallery curated by Oz Zaloof, and in Gallery 52 in Oranim curated by Orit Bulgaro, as well as a duo show with Erez Uzan at the Center for Digital Art in Holon, curated by Noga Rozman. Her work Kotz Ba was featured in Hazira’s 2018 Autumn Ritual.
Due to the size of the prayer chapel, the number of seats is limited. We recommend securing your ticket early.
The project was created with the support of the Lottery Council for Culture and Art of the Lottery and with the support of the Jerusalem Foundation
