No man ever steps into the same river twice

Benyamin Gallery / Curator Iris Pshadezki

Etchings, concrete, plastic, 2021

‘No Man Ever Steps into the Same River Twice’ is a saying by Hercalitus, I try to step into the same river twice, and stop the unstoppable.

Exploring the intangibility of memory, I have found it to be similar to the evasiveness of water*. Following this I created a body of work tracking water’s free flow, leaving traces of it on metal, plastic and concrete.
First, I made etchings which are arbitrary: metal plates dipped in a bath of water; every dip is unique as much for the hand gesture as for the water movement. The dip’s traces were burnt in metal and printed on a paper, a representation of a moment that has passed.
Second, I dripped liquid plastic on concrete creating both clear droplets and casts of the liquid’s passage. All are a frozen transient for a gesture whose only purpose is what it leaves behind, perpetual souvenirs for an event that has ceased to exist.

Images by: Doron Oved

*Scientists demonstrated water’s ability to “remember”: they tested water droplets that came originally from the same source, then immersed different materials in the droplets. The water molecules changed their shape according to the different material they were in contact with. Therefore the scientists concluded that as water travels, it picks up and stores information from all of the places that it has travelled through.