Alona Harpaz and Mika Rottenberg\u2019s installation-model acquired its title from the name of a non-profit\u00a0 rganization (Infinite Earth) established by the two artists in Berlin in 2008, intended to aid needy\u00a0 mmunities by supporting education, setting up employment centers, and training women and children in andicrafts. The artists raise funds by selling photographs in limited editions\u2014\u201dby-products\u201d of small model-works inspired by Third World landscapes which they create. The revenues from these \u201cby- roducts\u201d are directed to India and Africa\u2014e.g. to supporting a weaving center in the village of Chamba in Northern India, owned and managed by a local women\u2019s organization, or to an educational program for homeless sick children in Namibia. During the run of the exhibition, the artists will conduct a workshop in community empowerment at a center for girls in Petach Tikva.
\nUnlike the previous projects (Infinite 1 and Infinite 2), implemented on a small scale, the installation\u00a0 nfinite Earth functions as a \u201cvisitors\u2019 center\u201d for the viewers\u2019 enjoyment. A fantasy about art and play, it\u00a0 esembles a titanic board game or a touristy miniature park consisting of the four elements\u2014air, fire, earth, and water. The game pattern projects, for instance, on the rehabilitation of the weaving factory,\u00a0 ntroducing the potential for repeating a work of art, which is then sold, activating the cycle of existence\u00a0 nd livelihood as in a food chain; the energy reservoirs are drawn from the earth and return to it, just like all the other artistic-economic \u201cgive-and-take\u201d resources in the project-game created by Harpaz and\u00a0 ottenberg. The installation will be offered for sale during the exhibition to promote additional such\u00a0ojects.
\nThe quasi-natural (bodies of water, a mine) or \u201cchild-like\u201d (sandbox) objects in the installation spawn a\u00a0 icrocosm, a mental landscape which does not represent a real place, yet draws inspiration from the\u00a0 eographical and cultural scenery of East Asia. The artistic vision is imbued with values of giving and\u00a0 eceiving, activating a web of movement and change which, in turn, leads to a renewed distribution of resources aware of the need to save energy and preserve the environment. As a whole comprised of\u00a0 ountless representations and fragments of reality, the installation is typified by flux and cyclicality of\u00a0 hings which penetrate one another, sustain one another, depend on one another, setting one another in
\nmotion. This reciprocity is linked to one of the insights at the core of the Buddhist world view\u2014a world\u00a0 hose entire elements, reflections, and phenomena forever exist in a mutual interdependence, and where\u00a0 verything is in a constant state of otion, flux, and change. This \u201ccyclicality\u201d seeks a human\u00a0 ractice\u00a0 nderlain by oundless responsibility for others and for one\u2019s surroundings; one whose echoes re discernible in the installation, which sweeps the viewer into a prevailing game f truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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