Ruth Patir

A 3D video work set inside the waiting room of the fertility clinic at the hospital of the city of Petach Tikvah. Here, 2800-year-old figurines of Canaanite fertility deities fill the room waiting for their allotted appointments. As the deities wait their turn in the clinic and ponder their discharge,TV screens broadcast the news: wild animals – also Canaanite figurines digitally animated – are invading urban spaces of major cities.

Through the animation of these figurines, which are part of the Archaeology Wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Patir creates a poignant mediation on the various forms of invasion we experience in contemporary reality.