still from video, Clal, one-channel video, 40'00'', 2022-2024

Clal Center in Jerusalem was built in the early 1970s as the first indoor shopping mall in Israel. The building, notorious for its architectural qualities and alien to its surroundings at the time, functions in Mizrahi's work as an outdoor studio or background. Mizrahi positioned a camera on a tripod and bright LED lighting at the security station of the building in order to create a disturbance in the routine of passersby, inviting them to take an active part in the project. The video portrait contains a variety of identities and gazes staring at the light as if witnessing a celestial occasion, a gateway to another dimension, or a prophecy materializing before their very eyes. They stare at the bright light up to the point where they are no longer able to, or otherwise decide to give up (Written by Assaf Hinden). Watch excerpt