The Space Between: Petach Tikva Museum Explores Liminality

The Petach Tikva Museum in Israel presents 'The Space Between', an exhibition curated by director Drorit Gur Arie, running from May 17 to September 16, 2007. The show abandons the typical white cube for a more secretive, mysterious atmosphere, probing the tension between the museum as a hegemonic public space and as a venue for individual artistic experience. Twelve international artists participate, including Adriana Lara, whose video 'Art Film1: Ever Present Yet Ignored' critiques museum certainties, and Gulsun Karamustafa, whose 'Memory of a Square' juxtaposes family scenes with Taksim Square events. Shoja Azari's 'A room with a view' examines willful blindness to street realities. Israeli architects Raphaël Cohen and Nitzan Sat designed a long, unornamented corridor that subverts the space. The exhibition engages with Israel's pervasive sense of 'betweenness'—between borders, homes, territories—making the theme particularly resonant.