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On the Bed of Liveliness
I lie on the bed of liveliness, sit on it, stand, spring on it, cry, scream and laugh, all for the sake of reaching the incompleteness of life and its concrete fragility.
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awel / abol
The first coffee serving in the Ethiopian coffee ritual
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Anthem / Himnon— a film by Elad Keidan
Amnon woke up, not to a bright new morning but wanting to end his life. The smell of someone’s coffee came through his window and awoke excitement in him, so he began to brew his own. Nearing dusk, in a residential part of Jerusalem, the camera movement mirrors emptiness. Single cars drive up and down…
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Man and Flower
With a work I created for an exhibition at the Galerie Joachim Blüher (Cologne, Germany) in the mid 1990s, the interest for questions on human existence was revived. Blüher invited me to participate in a group exhibition he was preparing on the topic of flowers. My initial reaction was reluctance towards making flowers but I…
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Friedrich the Great on Coffee
“It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee consumption. Everybody is using coffee. If possible this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.” Friedrich the Great (1712-1786)










