Freedom of Conscience - 2023

Gouache on paper

50 x 70 cm

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The work is part of the group exhibition Draw Me a Fist, curated by Eran Lederman, that included 39 works from different artists and traveled across the country as part as Israel's major protests against the government and for human rights. We had to choose which freedom we wanted to represent and I chose freedom of conscience. A short while later, the war began and I used my freedom of conscience to decide not to take part and to decline doing reserve unit duty. Our fists were printed on 200 x 800 cm banners and to exhibit this work, a team, including myself, secretly made and hung these banners, initially on street lights and later on, on Israel’s main highway (Ayalon). The work is currently on Display on Abraham Hostel in Tel Aviv. 
Freedom of Conscience is featured on the cover of Dr. Gideon Ofrat's new book about the history of Israeli political art.

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