Read the full review written by on Nira Pereg’s exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh here.

Nira Pereg: Patriarchs is on view until February 18, 2023.

The exhibition displays the first two parts of Pereg’s trilogy: ABRAHAM ABRAHAM SARAH SARAH (2012) and ISHMAEL (2015). Both works follow an implementation of spatial division established in 1994 by the Israeli authorities after a Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Muslim worshipers while they were praying in the mosque. The site has been physically divided, so that worshippers of each religion are strictly kept apart. However, ten times a year, as dictated by each religious calendar and under close Israeli military control, the site passes hands for 24 hours only, enabling each side to have full use of all the chambers of the cave.