E 16 In artist Mali De-Kalo’s video installations, time rarely unfolds as a simple sequence of events. Images recur, overlap, and reappear across multiple screens, creating visual environments in which different moments coexist. In Matter of History, a 2024 installation at Beit Shturman Museum in Ein Harod, a three-screen video work featured excerpts from interviews that De-Kalo had held with kibbutz pioneers alongside video projections of changing natural landscapes and architectural spaces. Together, these elements formed a dynamic multimedia collage in which points of convergence between the different channels unfolded across multiple screens, transcending the physical boundaries of individual projections and generating new, fluid, and often unexpected interpretations. Later that year, in City and Eyes (2024, Art Space, Tel Aviv), De-Kalo chose to project the same video footage in each of the channels, intentionally staggering the timing of the projections. The work begins playing on the first channel; several seconds later it reappears from the beginning on the second channel, then on the third, and finally on the fourth. The result is a graduated flow in which the same images move between the different projections, as if visually echoing the same moment. This repetition of the same video footage disrupts our perception of time as linear: before the sequence of images disappears from one screen, it reappears on the others as if Mali De Kalo: The Fabric of Time Time-Space Prof. Eran Neuman
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