Hila Lulu Lin Farah Kufer Birim | the slope, Wall text work

The two works by artist Hila Lulu Lin Farah Kufer Bir’im featured in the exhibition offer a glimpse into the artist’s rich language, formulated over four decades in performance, drawing, printmaking, etching, video, and text works. Her practice ranges from the intimate to the political, from quotidian to mythical situations, while continuously exploring the body, gender, identity, and language.
The video work “the slope” was filmed in Jaffa/Yafa Midron Garden (“Slope Garden”). The artist moves across and along Yafa’s coast, from south to north, east to west, in parallel and opposite directions. In the video, she is seen rolling a headstone from her family home in Kufer Bir’im, holding a white flag with a round hole at its center, making a ball of golden threads, and so on actions that take place simultaneously within the body and between the body, the city, and the sea. Midron is also the name of the park where the video work “the green grass what is your secret” was filmed - both an outline of geographic, metaphysical, and internal movement, and an image of walking on the edge. “The work has an abstract inner narrative,” writes the artist. “It can be contemplated experienced, an infinite. loop till the. end of place. end of time. blessed, unease. is essential in these acrimonious times.”
The poem “har afar/mountain of dirt” displayed (horizontally) on the stairwell wall is written in “lulu font” – the front that the artist invented based on her own handwriting. Like in her other poems, language becomes a living space, and entire and disjointed words take us on a verbal, physical, and emotional journey. Both works travel along the line between the bloody contemporary present and an unknown future.