Linkage is a term that describes a situation in which genes that are adjacent to each other on the DNA sequence have a high chance of being replicated together for the next generation in close proximity. Through this prism of heredity, the works of Hassin and Ben Haim can also be read. Their original images undergo replication, disruption, and birth as new creatures that carry within their bodies the remnants of their "parents" that emerge between the cracks and testify to their origins.
In Bezalel Ben-Haim's photographs, objects and subjects that we see every day on the street are stitched together so that from the connections between them and the chosen angles of photography, new, wondrous beings, fantasy creatures are created. The multitude of stimuli and images in the city takes on a new face as the fragments come together and become a kind of enigmatic "city animals" and wild natural landscapes.
Carmit Hassin sews together parts that appear to be internal organs or simple life forms into sculptures that resemble umbilical cords, the carcasses of sea creatures washed ashore, or perhaps large worms. Here too, the parts come together to form creatures with an internal logic but not one that is unambiguously identifiable.
The exhibition "Grass" combines two bodies of work that oppose each other, pulling each in a different direction, but in the end they interfere with each other, flowing one to the other and one into the other, and complementing each other.

The exhibition "Grass" is part of a series of exhibitions on the theme of "Multiplicity" presented at the Benjamin Gallery during the 2021 long-term season.

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