The Distance of a Day

This selection of recently acquired video works, sculptures, and installations by some of today’s leading international artists explores – concretely and conceptually – the themes of connection and disconnection, unity and separation. The exhibition takes its title from David Horvitz’s video work The Distance of a Day (2013), displayed on two iPhone screens, which presents a sunrise and a sunset captured at exactly the same time by the artist and his mother – one in Los Angeles and the other in the Maldives. Also on view are works by Zoya Cherkassky, Tala Madani, Roman Ondák, Trevor Paglen, R. H. Quaytman, Elias Sime, and others. David HorwitzThe Distance of A Day, 2013Digital video, 12 mins. Purchase, West Coast Acquisitions Committee of American Friends of the Israel Museum Alexandra BirckenKnotenbild (knot-image) IV + V, 2009 Fine Inkjet Prints on board, wooden frames, unique Purchase, West Coast Acquisitions Committee of American Friends of the Israel Museum Andreas SlominskiNot Yet Titled, 2009 Metal, aluminum, plastic Gift of Austrian Friends of the Israel Museum