Traces in motion. 

The principle of inertia, the title of Meirav Heiman’s exhibition

is revealed in different ways throughout an installation, located in the entrance space, and video and photography, in the upper gallery.

The exhibition examines everyday processes of constant change and the potential disruption of “proper order” in them through the interruption of seemingly trivial connections between people and the objects they use. Usage of them, “a breaking of vessels,” and also their abandonment, brings up a world of traces, stains, remains and shadows derived from our very existence.

The continuous movement of the light fixture that rises and sets in a steady rhythm, for a period of minute, acts as a metronome of light whose pendulum-like motion casts continuously changing shadows of a group of abandoned furniture onto its surroundings.

The consideration of time, but also changing emotions in their individual aspects, leads to thinking about continuity as a general perhaps eternal process and its destructive significance at the individual human level, This duality of simultaneous presence is included in the details of the installation, the video and the photograph, but to the same extent also exists as a generalization, a commonly shared principle of continuity cut off artificially in the process of doing, as expressed in the different works.

However, this artificial cutting off only emphasizes all the more forcefully the inflexibility of the circular, the superhuman nature of the continuous, the personal sacrifice of the individual for the sake of continuity, as well as its latent consolation.

Vered Zafran Gani