Squaring the Circle exhibition was held in January 1999, in a gallery of Be'eri kibbutz in West Negev. It was a place inhabited by farmers, shepherds and typograph workers, on a border with sector Gaza keeping hard on implementing a programme of socialism with a human face. During the first half of his ten days visit there, the author, in his spare time, when he was free from visiting ancient amphitheatre, ostrich farm, abandoned Ottoman sulfury factory and British antitank defence line, filled a parallelepiped of the gallery with unity and conflict of circle and square. Approximately a half of the exhibit was pictures and gramophone disk records, while the other half was created on a spot from broken toys, dishes and other urban rubbish. Compositional and ideological centre of the exhibition consists of two large sheets of plywood in a form of semi-circles truncated by chords. On one of them, a small black square was made, as a reverence to Kazimir Malevich, as a symbol of round black hole swallowed all goals and tasks of the art of the past, except for a pure fun of making. Some of the objects were later left for the kibbutz, some others were thrown back to a junkyard, whereas some were back to the possesion of the author.
Nekoda Singer. Born in 1960 in Novosibirsk (Russia). Since 1988 lives in Jerusalem. Writer, translator, artist, critic, co-editor of literary journal «Двоеточие».
The author's personal site: http://nekodasinger.blogspot.com/.