Letter to Absalon

“Letter to Absalon” is a group exhibition that will take place at Artspace Tel-Aviv in January 2026. The exhibition pays homage to Absalon (1964-1993), an artist whose manner of resistance was unusual. Speaking with an audience after a screening of his film “noises” in 1993, Absalon said that he wishes to rebel, to say “no” without offering a counter-measure or a better ideology, but simply to resist: Resistance for its own sake. Absalon chose this type of resistance because he found out he had AIDS, which in the 1990s meant certain death. The exhibition showcases works by various artists joined by the idea of resistance for its own sake, against the work of Absalon. Each of these works stresses that resistance mustn’t necessarily come in the form of protest, and that the resistant position itself restores agency to the subject: that despite the subject being helpless, there is value in the resistant position or in resistance as a state. Artists: Absalon, Liat Elbling, Uri Weinstein, Michaela Winefield Fleishman, Rachel Rabinovitch, Adi Oz Ari