'Friday Bath', 2008, video slide show, 4-52 min. I video di Benjamin Reich affrontano il tema del profondo sentimento di amicizia, talvolta omosessualità, tra gli adolescenti israeliani nei clan ultra ortodossi. Il suo recente lavoro video 'Friday Bath', è stato girato a Lifta, in occasione del Bagno, un momento reputato sacro dalla cultura ortodossa. Ci sono molte sorgenti natur...

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HomeLessHome will aspire to investigate the relationship between the private home and the state. It will study the formal and functional similarity between the two spaces which enables the definition of both as "home" (the national home), and the difference between them, which traditionally places the former in the private (or natural) sphere and the latter in the political sphere. T...

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Binyamin Reich's exhibition is the fruit of his wanderings through the realms of his childhood in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. It displays a collection of documentary photographs, childhood photographs, family photographs, and anonymous photographs. With a sense of yearning, the adult Reich returns as a suitor to these regions, documenting this world of others with his camera. Chi...

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Benyamin Reich studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He was raised within a Jewish ultra-orthodox family and attended religious schools and yeshivas until he left home at an early age to find his way in the secular world. The prophet Isaiah described the Third Temple as a source of divine inspiration and truth for all humanity. Rei...

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