Ba’bos (meaning raising the middle finger in Arabic). In this work Salfiti constructed a cucumbers basta in Tel Aviv similar to bastas that are in arab souks across Palestine.
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The Man in That Box
The artist locked himself up, naked, inside a roofless box,in Wadi Salib, Haifa outside the Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, where he stayed for six days in the hot month of July.
The Cube Wadi Rum
The Cube Wadi Rum, 2019 The Cube Wadi Rum 2019, Wadi Rum The transparant zone/space: The cube-shaped installation frames both the desert landscape of Wadi Rum and the person inside it, giving him a new perspective within the context of a music rave. The cube’s envelope is composed of white strips that enable transparency, creating a rather unusual […]
Man on The Chair
The Man on The Chair, 2018 The Man on The Chair Performance art in Ruven Kuperman’s solo exhibition Assassins, RawArt gallery, Tel Aviv, 2018 The artist took his place on a freshly painted red office chair just before the museum doors opened. His wardrobe was consistent: A white shirt, white trousers and worn white socks […]
Death Wandering
Death Wandering, 2018 Death Wandering Video Art Installation, Everything that rises must converge, Group Exhibition, Manjm, Haifa, 2018 Death is there as the ultimate truth; nobody can escape it or avoid it. In death we are all equal. Death is wandering around us, always giving us the reason to create and live. Death connects all […]
The Walk
The Walk, 2017 The Walk 2017, Tel Aviv to Jaffa “The Walk” is a performance that investigates power submission and dependance. “The Walk” constitutes of four different walks, taken place in different times and locations. Each walk takes 3 hours in which 12 participants were bound together using the ancient Japanese Shibari technique and walked […]
The Ontology of the Blind
A multimedia performance and display of sound and visuals. Interplayed in one space; the relationship between the intersection of the mediums is exposed along with the dissonance. This is an attempt to delve into the sonic obscurity by capturing capricious sounds and redefining them.
The Pilgramage
A frame from The Pilgramage, 2018 The Pilgramage 2018, Haifa The search of moral or spiritual significance During his trip to India and by practicing meditation there, Rabia Salfiti started to reflect his personal identity conflict as a Palestinian growing up in the State of Israel in between the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a spiritual way. […]
Holy Balance
Holy Balance, 2014 Holy Balance Wisdom Of Crowds, Group Exhibition, Mixed Media: “Holy Balance” Beit Ha-Gefen , Haifa, 2014 The Unreachable: In this piece, Rabia Salfiti explores the relationship between the individual and their environment by juxtaposing a reactive mechanism in the gallery space. The physical proximity between the viewer and Salfiti’s scales set off […]