Spectrum for an Untouchable

Israel: my home, my friend, my chaperone, 

my guide, my heart.

Israel: my exile, my otherness, my boundary, 

myopia, my shadow.

 

Spectrum for an Untouchable is an experimental book that aspires to explain Israel, and what it means to be Israeli, from an autobiographical standpoint. The writing draws upon the color spectrum, interweaving it with memories, shapes, unseeable images, and gaps of vision in order to describe and question a place. Israel is written of as a person. It is a break-up that can never be complete, and a love that can never be fulfilled. It is a dream space that intertwines fear and pain with recognition and hope.

Born in Tel-Aviv Israel, Meital Yaniv is an interdisciplinary visual artist writer and filmmaker. Yaniv’s practice is built on a visual dialogue that bridges the personal and political conditions at the core of her origin. Together with Eve LaFountain and Ali Kheradyar, Yaniv initiated the conversation series, Feminism Today in May 2013. Her work has been exhibited at Last Projects, Pøst, Photo LA, Cirrus Gallery, Shulamit Gallery, Raid Projects and For Your Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Yaniv holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.