Peter Jacob Maltz, winner of the 2017 Miron Sima Prize for the Visual Arts, opens a passage into both physical and metaphysical space, exploring the bond between person and place. His work frames place as both a shaper of identity and a bearer of promise, while positioning uprooting as a fundamental condition that drives artistic creation. This exhibition deepens that inquiry.
Moving through the exhibition, one encounters a series of observations—brief, conscious flashes that shed their surface to reveal raw material. The result is a restrained, monochromatic, almost devotional landscape. Maltz sustains a tension between control and surrender, allowing materials to guide the process. The work unfolds across mediums—from text to drawing, painting, object, and sculpture—culminating in a spatial installation that activates the architecture of the Artists’ House, infusing its arches and thresholds with renewed meaning and a resonant connection to its history as the Bezalel building.