2013

Neither Day Nor Night

Sound and light installation at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2013
Plywood, laminate, reflective fabric, lights, dimensions variable; 5 min in a loop, an adaptation of Gymnopédie by Erik Satie, 1888

In the darkened -1 floor of the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Rodeh installed a low and wide chess-patterned wooden stage with a reflective pleated curtain at its far end. A tuba adaptation of Erik Satie’s 1888 popular composition Gymnopédie #1, originally composed for piano, emanates from the loudspeakers set into the floor, synchronized with changing lights. The result is harmonious and disharmonious, transforming the familiar into the unusual and creating a sense of expansion into a fantastic cinematic dimension.

Curator: Hadas Maor
Tuba: Yuval (Tubi) Zolotov 
Musical production: Kalbata
Documentation: Tal Nisim

The work was made possible with additional support from Outset Israel.