טווח אפס

Eyal Shmuel Landman

Zero Range  

Mentor: Naomi Slaney

The information overload that characterizes our lives necessitates processing and filtering mechanisms – yet these same mechanisms are also used for the systematic suppression of challenging information. Zero Range emerged from examining how human rights organizations document, publish, and preserve knowledge about Israel’s actions against the Palestinian population, while highlighting the systematic disregard of this information in Israeli society.

The installation centers on the age column “0” in the table of documented death toll in Gaza, which contains over 900 rows with names of babies under one year old killed in Gaza since the war began. The number “0” reveals the tragic paradox, when an entire life is reduced to a data column that does not even define an age – only the void of what never had the chance to be.

The work offers an alternative space for recognizing a reality that society refuses to witness in real time. The combination of the tangible and the digital, between cold data and intimate encounter, creates an experience that transcends passive consumption of information. From the understanding that genuine recognition emerges in the quiet space between raw data and personal names, the installation sets out to breach the wall of indifference that enables the continuation of atrocities or their denial.