In collaboration with Esti Contes and Carla Grostin Gonen

This video work documents a performance taking place in the desert. The work presents a dialogue between control and freedom, and the human attempt to organize and delimit the open and wild space. Three women carry queue poles – a clear symbol of social order – into the desolate desert. In their action, they dismantle the original meaning of the poles and transform them into tools for creating a new and shifting space.

The performance carries a ritualistic meaning in creating the triangular structure with the queue poles, and in the deliberate repetition of the action three times – a number of symbolic significance appearing in religious and cultural rituals. As in ancient rites of passage, the women leave the familiar space, perform an act in a liminal space, and return to the world without leaving physical traces behind.