Spirits

In an almost empty gallery that serves as a kind of sounding board, spirits resonate throughout the space, evoking the past, hinting at the present, and warning us about the future.

An interview given by Yitzhak Rabin in 1994, about a year before his assassination, to the American journalist Charlie Rose is transformed here into a sound installation comprising eight musical-dramatic movements. Artist and musician Daniel Kiczales deconstructs the interview and reconstructs it by means of a musical composition, arrangement for vocal ensemble, and division into subjects which, despite the thirty years that have passed, seem more relevant than ever.

Daniel Kiczales, Israeli, born 1980

Spirits, 2023; site-specific version, 2025

Sound installation, 16:14 mins

Collection of the artist

Chorus: Ariel Leykin, Gidon Levy, Daniel Kiczales

Consultation: Amir Bolzman

Musical consultation: Laila Mazal Yenishen

Mix: Amir Bolzman, Daniel Kiczales, Daniel Koronkevich

The exhibition was made possible by the donors to the Israel Museum’s Exhibition Fund:

Claudia Davidoff, Cambridge, MA, in memory of Ruth and Leon Davidoff

Hanno D. Mott, New York

The Nash Family Foundation, New York

An anonymous donor

With the support of an anonymous donor