The gallery talk will deal with the work process, research, and creation of the exhibition currently on display at Asif, “Home Away From Home Away From Home: A Tribute to Workers’ Restaurants.” The discussion will be moderated by Yuval Sa’ar, editor and founder of the online design and art magazine Portfolio. He will be joined by exhibition curators Lia Rosin and Rona Zinger, as well as two of its co-creators, professor Nir Avieli and the designer professor Dov Ganchrow. The ticket price includes drinks and snacks.
What are workers’ restaurants in Israel? The exhibition and the accompanying content are an ongoing discussion of this question. They aim to disassemble and reassemble its visual, human, and culinary characteristics through different prisms and with their help to ask complex questions about our society like: Are there still workers’ restaurants in Israel? Are these home-style restaurants or also street food spots, even fast food chains and coffee shops? Could it be that the term is used as a way to white-ash restaurants that feed migrant workers and asylum seekers in an attempt to obscure the fact that the workers are often the newest immigrants? Are there any workers at all today that can go out to eat in a restaurant in the middle of the workday, or is this an imaginary idea that has been romanticized?
The gallery talk is an opportunity to understand the story, thought, and questions behind the exhibition. By breaking the myth of the workers’ restaurants, we can learn about the social and economic transformations in Israel in the past century and attitudes towards immigrants.
The ticket price includes a bottle of Taiba beer and three salads for the table. Dishes from the deli menu will also be available.
Join us for a tour before: From 16:30-17:30 there will be a tour of Asif including the library, the exhibition, and the educational rooftop farm. Click here for more details and to purchase tickets for the tour. Please note that tour tickets are separate from those for the gallery talk.