Ein Hod | 2023 | Janco- Dada museum

The museum’s Pit, which was created by the members of the Tav group, is now hosting a site-specific installation that artist Orna Versano Malki created especially for this space. In this work she examines her current relationship with her eldest son upon his enlistment to military combat service. The artist provides visual expression to the term “Helicopter Mom”—a nickname for a type of protective parenting that is challenged when the child is separated from the mother and the army assumes responsibility for him. The maternal instinct to protect and defend is is set in contrast to the myth of the hero, as demanded by the Israeli reality.

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