copy farm 2024 Video installation / 5 min
In the intersections of land and territory, agriculture, and war, the work combines images from the agricultural fields along the border with Gaza, in the Otef region, the Israeli frontier settlements, and inside the Strip, which, due to the war, are endangered and have become battlefields. Against the backdrop of destruction, bereavement and famine, the fields form an image of today’s Gaza-Israel borderscape.
Agriculture is expressed in the poster “נחס نَحْس” (roughly translated from Arabic and Hebrew to “jinx”) in the installation, where the farmer figure is composed of a collage of Israeli, Palestinian, and Thai farmers, reflecting the historical identity of agricultural workers in Israel.
In the video work, which consists of filmed materials and found footage, the drone camera is used as the central perspective, serving as a common tool for both the military and agriculture. Over the Israel-Gaza border, the drone chases kites, some of which were sent by a Gazan resistance group in 2018 to set fire to the Israeli frontier fields in what was named in Israel arson terrorism.
In Copy Farm Mizrahi borrows the practice of duplication, used by 20th-century Pop artists, for observational practices on war time bacchanal celebration of the land.
Curated by Vera Korman
installation view, Musrara mix
installation view, Musrara mix
Film still
Film still