Winter Beat

Winter beat is artist Netta Dror’s first solo exhibition. It is a site-specific installation set within the Residential Project (in which Dror participated in 2019), a site now hosted by the Jaffa Museum. The installation incorporates sculpture, video and audio.
The Jaffa Museum, with its multi-layered, multi-functional structure, is housed in an 18th Century building, itself built on the ruins of a crusader fort. It has at various times served as the headquarters of Ottoman rule in Palestine (the Saraya), as a soap factory, a wayside hostel and till the early 1980s as the Jaffa Museum of Antiquities, exhibiting finds from Tel Jaffa. The archeological exhibit is retained albeit as a small, marginal department of the museum. The entire building appears to be empty and dilapidated, holding on to its varied past but at the same time absent and incomplete; revealing one small space and then covering up two.