{"id":13869,"date":"2026-02-08T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/?post_type=exhibitions&p=13869"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:53:29","slug":"days-end-exhibition-in-the-25th-nidbach-series","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/exhibitions\/days-end-exhibition-in-the-25th-nidbach-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Day’s End | Exhibition in the 25th Nidbach Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we talk about staged photography, we tend to think of sets, performative action, and preconceived drama. In Noga Davis’s work, staging operates differently: not as an invention of an alternative world, but as a mechanism of suspension, allowing reality to emerge without being fixed on a single meaning. Rather than imposing a story, it seeks to sustain, momentarily, a fragile state already underway.<\/p>\n

Family ties are present in the works as a continuous gaze, reinforcing the tension between intimacy and exposure. The figures are close to the lens, yet maintain a certain distance. The viewer is not invited to solve a mystery, but to be absorbed into an emotional state. The images hold an internal tension, refusing to yield to rapid interpretation.<\/p>\n

Photography takes place in confined, everyday spaces, which do not readily produce drama. It is there, through Davis’s precise gaze that simple details, such as a wall, a window, a curtain, a plant, a body, and movement, take on a new presence. The encounter between the simplicity of the space and the acuteness of the gaze spawns a sculptural quality.<\/p>\n

The exhibition opens with a large-scale photograph showing a figure running from left to right across a rocky slope. The work’s dimensions create a cinematic allusion, evoking a screen. The image echoes various traditions of running as a charged action, between an outburst of youth and cinematic freedom, and a moment of liberation that comes to a dead end, as in the final scene of Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut’s film, The 400 Blows<\/em>. For Davis, running is also a tribute. The viewer’s body is guided by the figure’s running direction, moving inward with it into the exhibition space, as if entering a long shot, a panorama. The presence of the image introduces the exhibition as a space read while walking, through orientation, via transitions between images that form a trajectory that is not entirely linear, but carries a subtle circularity.<\/p>\n

Tomer Kep<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Events in the exhibition:<\/h5>\n
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    Tuesday 17.3 at 5pm | Gallery talk with Noga Davis & Tomer Kep\u00a0<\/del>\u00a0\u2013 postponed<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    Saturday 11.4 at 12pm | Gallery talk with Noga Davis & Tomer Kep\u00a0<\/del>\u2013 postponed<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Tuesday 28.4 at 5pm | Gallery talk with Noga Davis & Tomer Kep<\/li>\n
    • Saturday 23.5\u00a0 at 12pm | Gallery talk with Noga Davis & Tomer Kep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13887,"template":"","categories":[108],"artists":[5637],"exhibition":[5645],"curator":[5643],"years":[5545],"class_list":["post-13869","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nidbach-en","artists-noga-davis","exhibition-days-end-exhibition-in-the-25th-nidbach-series","curator-tomer-kep","years-2026-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/13869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"exhibition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"curator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/curator?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=13869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}