Ella Littwitz
Leviathan, 2025
Loving Art. Making Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Oct 23 – 25, 2025

On the historic weighbridge from the British Mandate era, once used to weigh trucks, rests a mound of fish scales. The title, Leviathan, alludes to the formidable creature woven into numerous myths. The whale, a marine mammal, appears in the Book of Job as a monster covered in an impenetrable armor of scales, an undefeatable being that emphasizes the smallness of humankind before it. Hobbes later invoked the image of the Leviathan to describe the state as a powerful, sovereign entity before which nothing can stand. ​ In Littwitz’s work, the scales appear as a protective layer that has been removed, piled up, and revealed as transparent and fragile. Every gust of wind scatters them, lightening their weight and exposing their instability. What first seems like a wall of defense and a symbol of solidity gradually becomes a testament to vulnerability – raising questions about the very nature of protective layers: our own, the body’s, society’s, and the state’s. ​

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Photo: Rakefet Kenaan