Gili Lavy’s works take the form of large-scale projections and immersive installations. She is inspired by how socio-political conditions affect cultural identity, and the land where they exist.  She focuses on the relics, on fractions of time, on post-traumatic states, on what is left, missing or sensed, on what narratives the land might reveal.

How does change in collective histories manifest in the world around us, in the long term?

Her recent work, Furlong made use of scientific illustrations, data and digital footage exploring the various meanings of ‘border’ and the land being codified as ‘territory’. With the collaboration of a geologist, she reflected on the values of mapping, searching for, measuring and owning land. Lavy investigates the land as an archive, hinting at what might just have happened or it is yet to happen; the effects of such events on the texture of the land, often in a post event/post disaster situation. 

Furlong is a disused term to describe an acre’s length. While exposing the military device for scanning the ground from above, the journey through the repetitive, strategic, mechanical process of measuring also articulates a frantic search of an untouched, unknown, perhaps fictional place: TerraNullius— a land which isn’t occupied, owned or inhabited. By capturing the texture of the land and its natural features, the work longs to reveal the secret histories beneath the surface, unfolding magical yet turbulent scenarios to imagine new worlds.