Triple 'Knesset' (Israeli parliament)  2008

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Triple Knesset began while I was working with the Leni and Herbert Sonnenfeld photographic archive for the exhibition Never Looked Better at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv in 2008.

While going through the archive, I came across photographs that had been taken inside the Israeli parliament. I remember looking at them and being confused. I had grown up in Israel and knew the Knesset building in Givat Ram very well from television, newspapers and public life, but the rooms in these photographs looked completely unfamiliar to me. I could not understand where they had been taken.I began to investigate the history of the Knesset buildings and discovered something that had never really entered my own image of the institution: before moving to its permanent building in Givat Ram in 1966, the Knesset had existed in several temporary locations.