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As a child in Lithuania, then in Paris, Jerusalem and Barcelona, Cécile Reims (born 1927) drew the world around her. 

Inviting artists, designers and architects to intervene in the context of a museum collection or historic monument is now a widespread practice, and a perilous but stimulating exercise. Our aim since the museum opened in 1998 has been to constitute a contemporary collection out of these ‘encounters’, that is, to work on a long-term basis with Jewish and non-Jewish artists, always in a spirit of open-mindedness, to create resonances with the objects and themes in the permanent collection.

Mikael Levin was born in New York in 1954 and has lived in Israel, France and the United States. He currently lives and works in New York.

Water from Above, Water from Below is an installation, a kind of polyptych associating several time-memories.
I imagine it like a journey. The viewer encounters different categories of image-memories. Our vision begins to oscillate, leading us to conceive a non-linear narrative.

“I like all tools that make lines. I know lines, I frequent them, lines with no conclusion, with no end, their turnings back, their accidents, their apparent speed, their tenacious duration, their persistence, their urgency.” (“Line”, 10 May 2002)

Sophie Calle asked inhabitants of Jerusalem, Israelis and Palestinians, to take her to a public place that they consider to be private.