I've been here all my life

2021

This exhibition emerged from an encounter between the artist and a woman who lived her entire life in a small room at the Saint-Vincent Monastery, adjacent to the Gram Gallery in Jerusalem.

Nurit Dreamer transformed the gallery into a recreation of the woman's monastic room. Her life story played through a loudspeaker, revealing the history of the place and street where both gallery and monastery are situated. Dreamer placed objects from her own family's history within the space, creating a layered narrative that blended personal histories.
The installation's dynamic shifted periodically: the room would darken, and the "outside" world would be projected onto the wall through a camera obscura technique, using a small window hole. A tiny microphone outside captured passersby's conversations, which were then heard within the gallery.
Through this immersive work, Dreamer created a fluid space where boundaries dissolve - outside invades inside, inside permeates outside, and the historical and political intermingle with the intimate and fictional.

Creation: Nurit Dreamer
Curation: Gerem Gallery
Voice: Noami Yoely
Artistic and technical consultation: Niv Gafni and Assaf Cohen