Exhibition is fruit of 8 years of research about a brutalist building located in Zikhron Ya`akov
(Artdaily.org)

The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv presents Ilit Azoulay’s newest exhibition, “Regarding Silences,” which is the culmination of eight years of research and production. Azoulay is known for using thousands of high definition macro photographs to create surreal composite images. Using her signature technique for this project, she painstakingly catalogued the renovation of an emblematic Brutalist building situated in northern Israel, in the process uncovering complex layers of history. Built in 1968 by Yaakov Rechter as a convalescent home for workers, the award-winning building, a masterpiece of Brutalist architecture, was converted over nine years into an art-oriented luxury hotel. However, beyond being a physical manifestation of the Israeli economy’s transition from socialist to capitalist, the building betrays a hidden past as an interrogation