The Cuckoo Clock
Vered Aharonovitch
2022
This book was created following my exhibition The Cuckoo Clock. The exhibition featured a large-scale kinetic installation, the central part of which was a house built as my childhood home. Through the windows viewers could peek inside. At the end of the exhibition period, the house was dismantled, and its parts were packed in boxes.
The desire to create the experience of the exhibition, an experience of movement, along with intrusiveness and invasion of privacy took shape in the form of a pop-up book.
The book begins with a sculptural exhibition. But its ending goes back to painting: all the images that appear in the book were painted especially for the book.
- Design: Avigail Reiner (The Studio), paper engineering: Oran Schneider
- Texts: Dr. Aya Lurie, Hagar Raban
- Translation: Shiran Tamary
- Language editing: Noa Heyne
- Copies: 600
- Pages: 20
- Type of binding: Hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 24.5X31.5
- Reproductions: Lena Gomon, Michael Liran
- Printing: A.R. Print ltd
- Binding: A.R. Print ltd
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Self published
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
- Book photography: Michael Liran
- ISBN: 9789655998160
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Vered Aharonovitch (b.1980) is a sculptor and installation artist whose work combines cast and colored polymers with materials like wood and fabric to create expressive characters and emotionally charged scenes. Her art explores complex relationships, often using fantasy, humor, and references to art history to reflect on personal experiences and broader themes such as gender, society, and current events.
She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy and an MFA from Haifa University. Aharonovitch has exhibited widely in Israel and internationally and is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture's Young Artist Prize. She is also a founding member of the Hanina cooperative gallery.
