Homebox, 2004-2005, carving, Ytong block, 30 x 30 x 30 cm, courtesy of the artist
Haimi Fenichel
The work Homebox, which was carved out of Ytong blocks, is part of a series of works in which Fenichel related to the melting pot of the Israeli urban sphere - to the modest dwellings and concrete housing projects rapidly constructed during the 1950s and 1960s for new immigrants. The building's details, which have been carved out of a banal construction material, are astonishingly delicate and fragile. The sense of being crowded and boxed in, the lack of privacy, the paper-thin walls - all of these are embodied in this exposed, crumbing building, which functions as an allegory for the collapse of the familial structure and for the fragility of the local sphere of life.
Born in Givatayim, 1972; lives in Kiryat Ono, works in Ganey Tikva
