Boys Throwing Tissue Balls Against a Painting of the Gaza Envelope Landscape, video still
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls Against a Painting of the Gaza Envelope Landscape
2026
two-channel video installation
9:12 minutes duration
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls, excerpt
This work focuses on the feelings and experiences of nine teenage boys from kibbutzim and moshavim in the Gaza Envelope following the events of October 7, 2023. Over the course of a year-long collaborative process, the participants and I developed a series of actions reflecting their everyday experiences as teenagers living in Israel and in the Gaza Envelope region.
The installation consists of two video channels. In one, the boys attempt to throw tissue-paper balls into trash bins; in the other, two of them repeatedly play the opening riff of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit in a continuous loop. Both channels are interwoven with excerpts from interviews I conducted with the members of the group.
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls, installation view, Kibbutz Magen
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls, excerpt
The work was filmed at Nofei HaBesor High School in Kibbutz Magen as part of “The Spark”, a project by Zumu - Museum on the Move.
Participants: Guy Ben Baruch, Yuval Elkallai, Boaz Frisher, Eviatar Kimhi, Maayan Kofler, Orel Levy, Yiftach Papo, Yuval Sela, Yehonatan Nudelman
Additional participants: Ron Alfasi, Nehorai Hetzroni, Yoav Key
Guitar: Hananel Levian
Drums: Idan Feldner
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls, excerpt
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls, installation view, Kibbutz Magen
Boys Throwing Tissue Balls Against a Painting of the Gaza Envelope Landscape, video still