Cypresses | Michal Rovner

Michal Rovner, Israeli, born 1957
Cypresses, 2015/2023

Video projection
On extended loan from the artist

 Floor -1, The Robert and Ruth Magid Hall in honor of Dr. Herbert. V. Evatt, Foreign Minister of Australia and President of the UN General Assembly 1948-1949

The movement of cypresses in Rovner’s work resonates with the view from library windows, and at the same time is an expression of social and political drama. The artist photographed the tall, slim trees in the Old City of Jerusalem, transformed the background into rocky terrain, and added brushstrokes and painted golden light. The cypresses define territorial divisions, traversed by a never-ending procession of nomads, migrants, refugees, or, at best, travelers in time and place.

Gift of the Kirsh Foundation and Wendy Fisher