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	Next Stop: Bat-Yam Alexanderplatz
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	June 2015 - November 2015
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	The German-Israeli encounter might never become trivial. Fifty, seventy, or even hundred years later. Moreover, </br>
	constantly framed as “one-of-a-kind,” it might also never grow out of its prescribed borders, its own “comfort” zone. </br></br>	Overwhelmed by the continuously repeating clichés of “a strong, brave and special friendship,” the live fabrication </br>
	of visual encounters attempts to charge this so called one-of-a-kind-relationship with both personal and collective </br>
	new meanings, to challenge its borders. </br></br>	By cutting and pasting <i>past</i> into <i>present</i>, replacing <i>here</i> with <i>there</i> and conflicting between <i>them</i> and <i>us</i>, a series </br>
	of imaginary images is constructed from historical as well as contemporary found photographs. The growing </br>
	exhibition "Hundred Years of German-Israeli Relations" takes us through a journey in which time and space </br>
	are flexible and the final destination remains unknown.</br></br></br>
	
	<img border=0 src="encounters02.jpg" style="width:380px; height:253px" alt="en/COUNTERs"/> </br></br>
	<img border=0 src="encounters05.jpg" style="width:380px; height:253px" alt="en/COUNTERs"/> </br></br>
	<img border=0 src="encounters01.jpg" style="width:380px; height:253px" alt="en/COUNTERs"/> </br></br>
	<img border=0 src="encounters04.jpg" style="width:380px; height:253px" alt="en/COUNTERs"/> </br></br><br/>

	This project was developed in the framework of <b> en/COUNTERs</b>, on the occasion of fifty years to the </br> 
	Israeli-German diplomatic relations.</br></br>
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	Installation photos by Janna Athena Pinsker

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