Ha-Tsipornim Alley 2
Ha-Tsipornim is a project initiated by the Bat Yam Museum of Art in collaboration with artist Yasha Rozov, focused on the restoration of the public spaces and building façades on HaTzipornim Alley at the heart of the Ramat Yosef neighborhood.
Work on the project began in late 2018, in a format created by the museum harnessing the Ministry of Construction and Housing with the Neighborhoods Renewal Initiative and the Ministry of Culture’s Artist in the Community grant.
“The building’s renovation project is a success story. The building has been transformed and made the place we live in more fun and more beautiful. The pièce de résistance is the artwork created by Yasha Rozov, who consulted with me before starting and created an impressive work on the building’s façade. The building renovation work changed the atmosphere and my feeling as a resident of the building.”
Haim Peter, apt 9, 2 HaTsipornim Alley
In this project, artist Yasha Rozov collaborated for a year with the residents of Ha-Tsipornim Alley. Through group meetings and one-on-one conversations with the residents in their apartments, he learned about the history of the community and the street, and about how they imagine the space in which they live. Over time, the collaborative work on the project became the social anchor of all the residents. Together with them, Rozov created a visual archive based on the community’s local history and the objects cherished by its residents.
At the end of the collaborative project, Rozov proposed several possible artistic interventions in the building’s common yard. To his delight, the residents chose an abstract artwork over a bench or a sitting area. The outcome is a “ground-level sculpture” combining abstract shapes and illustrations inspired by the artist’s interactions with the neighbors. Fruit trees were planted inside each of the reliefs created by Rozov.
“About two years ago, the curator of Bat Yam Museum, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, invited me to propose a meaningful change in the open spaces between the rowhouses in HaTsipornim Alley. We had the privilege of carrying out together the first artistic collaboration between an artist, a museum, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing. Imagine how great it would be if every derelict rowhouse that undergoes neighborhood renewal becomes a site for installing a sculpture or for establishing a space of some special quality.”
Yasha Rozov
Following the success of this process, we plan to develop additional collaborative projects between the ‘Artist in the Community’ initiative and the national Neighborhood Renewal programs.
