All Inclusive
Michael Liani
2021
The book All Included covers Michael Liani’s 2020 solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. The book deconstructs the exhibition for the viewer and gives a unique glimpse into the work processes that led up to it.
The exhibition All Included focuses on the remnants of the all-Israeli psychedelic, conflictual experience that characterizes the southern resort city Eilat in the summer months, when tourists spend their vacation days there. Eilat is a destination city, a kind of longed-for illusion of vacation, warmth, entertainment, luxury, where everything is allowed and everything is possible; “What happens in Eilat stays in Eilat.” Liani dismantles and reassembles this experience. He peels back the face of Israeli domestic tourism and observes it from an internal and external perspective. Similar to his previous works, he seeks to reveal the gap between the ideal of freedom and liberation and the feeling of detachment embodied in the Eilat vacation.
- Design: Leehe Erlich
- Editing: Einat Adi
- Texts: Aya Lurie, Meital Aviram, Nissan Shor
- Translation: Einat Adi
- Language editing: Einat Adi
- Copies: 300
- Pages: 176
- Type of binding: Softcover
- Dimensions (cm): 20X26
- Reproductions: Michael Liani
- Printing: A.R. Printing Ltd
- Binding: A.R. Printing Ltd
- Type of printing: Digital
Micha’el Liani (1987), is a multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of the Minshar School of Art. He holds an MFA with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. His work has received wide recognition and critical acclaim in Israel and internationally.
Liani is the recipient of the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Excellence Award from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the NEXT! Award from Docaviv, among others.
He has exhibited at the UCLA Biennale, the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, a group exhibition at Hansen House in collaboration with the Israel Museum, a solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Fresh Paint Art Fair, and more.
Liani creates from a rich inner gaze, striving in his photography and installations to engage with the human experience from within. His work moves along the axis between center and periphery, gender, and media aesthetics.
