When I cycled over to Ramle a couple of months ago, summer was still young and the daily temperatures climbed incessantly to the mid-30s. What joy, then, and relief it was to descend the steps of a heftily constructed eighth-century building with Dor Zlekha Levy to get an eyeful and earful of his video and sound installation at the Pool of the Arches.
The expansive site-specific work, which goes by the eminently appropriate title of Reflection, is the first of its kind to grace the subterranean pool that has existed since 789 CE, when the Muslim authorities incorporated it into the local water supply system.
“There was a sort of reservoir here,” Levy explains. “It wasn’t drinking water. It was water for animals or for irrigation.”
