Generative Crafts

In the duo exhibition Generative Crafts, Shirley Wagner and I present a 4:05-minute video projection that emerged from a close study of the gallery’s architecture, designed by Ada Karmi-Melamede. The university is divided into three main realms: the tall gallery hall, the subterranean operational floor, and the green gardens outside. The need to move between these spaces and to unravel their relationships gave rise to the work. Photography alone could not overcome the heaviness of the concrete walls, but AI allowed us to shift and destabilize them: to move a wall aside and glimpse what lies behind, to flow from the underground spaces into those above, and to drift outward into the gardens. The projection unfolds directly within the architectural space it depicts, creating a dissonance between the video and the room itself. In this way, the familiar structure becomes unsettled, dreamlike, and open to reflection on what truly anchors—or destabilizes—the spaces we inhabit.