Last Light, Bialik House

2024-2025

As part of the 100-year celebration, Daniel Tchetchik was invited by Yakir Ben Moshe, the Head of Culture at Bialik House, to create a series inspired by the house and Bialik himself. Last Light is on display in an intimate exhibition throughout the house's second floor.

Bialik wrote, "All the world is drowning in light and song." We are proud to now fill the poet's world with the work of Daniel Tchetchik, who translated Bialik's poetic richness into a contemporary and fascinating work, bridging between poetry and photography: a last light that is also the first light, a light of grace and redemption; isn't that the reason we create within ourselves again and again, through art, the spark of life?

- Yakir Ben Moshe, Curator

Daniel Tchetchik’s work is a lure of light between webs of silence. In a deep, multi-toned way, Tchetchik gives us a rare opportunity to feel up close the experience of synesthesia in the combination of all the senses: the touch of light, the sound of the dying of darkness, the smell of the sublime, the reading of the Zohar and the slow, wonderful and refined dying of the noga; is there a more appropriate arena for this spectacular display than the home of the national poet, Haim Nachman Bialik.

Anyone who enters Bialik's home, anyone who reads even a single line of his poems, feels the intense tension between chaos and silence. Bialik, the poet who created the 'Song of Resurrection' and at the same time the melancholy sadness of 'Now I have nothing, I have nothing'; Those who asked 'what is love' and on the other hand wandered with rage, sorrow through the courtyards of the 'city of killing' – knew that art is always balanced between existence and nothingness, between truth and fiction, between presence and absence. And into this mesh enters the profound work of Tchetchik: a photographer who felt the silence within the walls of the house, the birth of light from obscurity, the corners hidden from the eye but visible to the heart.