My Binyamina Days
“My Binyamina Days” is a name of a song, written by the national Israeli poet Ehud Manor.
The poet describes his deep belonging to the daily life for his home town – Binyamina; Golden sands, walking in bare feet, true love and warm simple life.
I documented my “imaginary intimate home place” as an immigrant in Israel during the early 1950s. In this series of pictures I wish to construct in my intimate living environment, small and daily occurrences and moments of intrinsic domesticity, of femininity- simple and secure. I was tracing the values of the promised simplicity by recreating it again, in 2006.
My apartment in Tel Aviv was chosen as the location for the works, a building built in the early 1950’s. Women were invited into this intimate environment and asked to perform the daily chores of keeping house and raising children; the set was staged in a manner loyal to the times.
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