A bright yellow dress designed by Alber Elbaz, presented as if floating in mid-air, makes one of many dramatic moments at Design Museum Holon’s new exhibition Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz. The immersive, multi-sensory exhibition journeys through key, defining moments of the life of actress, director, muse and activist Ronit Elkabetz (1964-2016), utilising cues and influences borrowed from the fashion and film industries. The exhibition illustrates how Elkabetz created and reasserted the act of dressing as a transgressive performative act, charging the garment with powerful meanings and her own subjectivity. This exhibition comes together in a collaboration between Shlomi Elkabetz, film director, brother, and close collaborator of Ronit Elkabetz and fashion curator and historian Ya’ara Keydar. The display of the garments was created in collaboration with designer Victor Bellaish, who sculpted the clothes, breathing new lif
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