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Sarit Shani Hay Installs Playful Landscape of

Soft Creatures For New Exhibition

at Design Museum Holon

Holon, Israel

srael has reopened after two months When designing her creations, which
of lockdown, and with it, a new are highly architectural while also playful
Iexhibition at the Design Museum and comforting, Shani Hay worked off
Holon that includes a site-specific these architectural elements. Arched
installation by multidisciplinary designer forms resemble secluded bays and steep
Sarit Shani Hay, who specialises in child- cliffs, and minimalistic wildlife creatures
centric design. are nestled around them. The installation’s
For the exhibit Black Box, Shani Hay atmosphere and the colours of the designs
has created an imaginary landscape with change, depending on the time of day,
cushioned volumes that evoke the rocky from bright morning light to darker tones
coastlines that sea lions, seals, bears, and as the sun begins to set.
other creatures call home. In her work, Shani Hay explores the
The pieces, with their blue and taupe relationships between the wild landscapes
tones, communicate the bold curves and the animals. “Animals occupy a
of the museum building itself that was central place in Sarit Shani Hay’s work,”
completed in 2010 by architect Ron Arad says Maya Dvash, curator at Design
and showcases a dramatic exterior in red Museum Holon. “She uses them to
and orange stripes, while its underside, construct a private, imaginary jungle
as seen from a glass wall in the room of motivated by an empathic human gaze
Shani Hay’s installation, is painted in and a desire to overcome archaic fears.
cooler shades.

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