«It would be considerable amounts of
stone and concrete and cement,» says Nye, about
building the
border wall.
A beautiful village filled with
stone buildings, that seems to have stood still for about 500 years, Madremanya is located in the Gironés region but just at the
border with the Baix Emporda region.
The exhibition is complemented by continuous screenings of
Border (2000), a Kafkaesque, «fictional» documentary shot on the highly charged Israel / Lebanon border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to build a deceptively simple stru
Border (2000), a Kafkaesque, «fictional» documentary shot on the highly charged Israel / Lebanon
border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to build a deceptively simple stru
border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of
building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to
build a deceptively simple structure.
In 2006, Rovner began a series of monumental structures
built with
stones from dismantled or destroyed Israeli and Palestinian houses from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Haifa, the Galilee and the
border of Israel and Syria.
e. Need for protection
borders in rivers, defense and other spaces: they introduced a system to
build with discarded tires, dirt and
stones.