Flames and fire, emergency and security, celebration and festivity are some of the departure points for the exhibition The Firemen’s Ball. Named after the 1967 film The Firemen’s Ball by Czech director Milos Forman, the title of the show points the spotlight towards an adjacent local fire station, a landmark in the neighborhood of Ramat Eliyahu, Rishon Lezion, located next to the Ramat-Eliyau Art Workshop.
The exhibition seeks to see the art gallery, similarly to the fire station, as a space of confrontation and distress in which aesthetic forms operate both as disruptions and, very much like fire, as experiential spectacle. It offers to turn the spotlight (or rather the fire hose) towards conflicts in the neighborhood through a light-hearted perspective on states of emergencies, while inquiring into the function of cultural festive events.