26 Carmit: Already in our first meeting at the Open University, I had a feeling that the building speaks to you, captivates you. You wanted to wander through it, to discover another floor and another corner, and another vegetation. What is it about the architecture that spoke to you and stimulated your creative senses, each of you separately and both of you as an artist duo? Shirley and Tal: Our encounter with the space is based on an ongoing experience of wandering through it: its various architectural elements and interplay of light, the contrasts between the lush exterior vegetation and the architectural discipline within. All these create an active experience that asks us to spend time in the space of the gallery and in the building for a while. The entire building embodies a junction of contrasts: between interior and exterior, between different materials and textures, and between different architectural languages. As visitors to the gallery, we realized that we had to think about all these parts and how to bring them together in this project. The building itself seems to lead us into a specific experience of wandering through its repetitive and fixed elements, from the niches that unfold from both inside and outside the gallery through the rhythmic appearance of the outdoor vegetation, the wooden ceiling-lined surfaces that border on the concrete walls through the varied and shimmering patterns of staircases to the tall columns that punctuate the transitional spaces. All of these elements together create an experience of spatial flow and a feeling Shirley Wegner and Tal Nisim in conversation with Carmit Blumensohn
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