Cover Story
The project was made with Avihai Mizrahi
Can we separate the archetype of the book and its functionality from the materials it is made of? Is it possible to strip the book off of essential qualities such as its content and still tell a story?
In the series Untitled the book serves as a material, physical, and cultural point of departure for the creation of new objects that stand on their own, and cannot be named.
Unlike a book, in which the content is not directly linked to the physicality of the object, the objects in the series demonstrate a direct link between the materiality and physicality and the content of the object and its story.
Cover Story
The project was made with Avihai Mizrahi
Can we separate the archetype of the book and its functionality from the materials it is made of? Is it possible to strip the book off of essential qualities such as its content and still tell a story?
In the series Untitled the book serves as a material, physical, and cultural point of departure for the creation of new objects that stand on their own, and cannot be named.
Unlike a book, in which the content is not directly linked to the physicality of the object, the objects in the series demonstrate a direct link between the materiality and physicality and the content of the object and its story.
Picnic
By Neil Nenner, Avihai Mizrahi
Presented at Hutzot Hayozer, Jerusalem.August 2025.
Curated by Yasha Rozov & Ivry Baumgarten
What happens when the innocent gesture of sitting in the shade becomes a charged structure — a sign of presence and erasure, of belonging and exclusion?
Instead of sitting down to eat, we are invited to ask: Who is welcomed? Who is present? Who is missing?
A picnic is not just a moment of leisure; it’s a collective snapshot, a fantasy of belonging — and often, a form of distraction.
Here, the picnic falls apart, collapses onto the ground, and begins to examine itself.
This is no longer just a picnic — it becomes an inquiry into the picnic as a cultural script: into soft deception, curated comfort, and the everyday objects that quietly shape our social spaces.
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