Occupied, 2010

South Tel Aviv, rented room by the hour.

This project lays out the dynamics and power relations between me as an artist and the subjects of the work, a prostitutes working the streets.

I filmed prostitutes in Central Station area during one year in what started as a documentary project and became a personal journey.

At the end of the shooting period, I asked one of the prostitutes to hug her in front of the camera for money.

The video work is presented as an action in real time; one shot, without editing, with a lingering observation into the way the two bodies fold into one another.