Easy Prey: Tamar Lev-On and Limor Klein Tivoli Curator: Meital Manor Reflections on the Animal In the depths of the unconscious, where the cracks between body and psyche begin, an animal roams. It is always there, sometimes emerging, sometimes only sensed. Easy Prey, the joint exhibition by Tamar Lev-On and Limor Klein Tivoli, forms an intimate arena of both symbolic and literal imagery drawn from daily life, cinema and popular culture. Predatory animals, hybrid human-beasts and fragmented memories become a visual language expressing both personal and collective sensations of anxiety, threat and lack of control. According to Sigmund Freud, death anxiety is never experienced directly, but through symbolic representations: animals, shadows, phobias. The predator, in this sense, becomes a visual signifier of existential danger, of the disintegration of the self and the uncontrollable. Carl Jung saw the archetypal animal as the embodiment of the “shadow” - those repressed aspects of the self from which we flee, but without which psychic wholeness cannot be achieved. Lev-On and Klein present the animal not only as an external figure but also as an internal force: psychic and corporeal, an embodiment of anxiety itself. Easy Prey weaves together two perspectives - that of an artist living in the Gaza envelope region, and that of an artist from Tel Aviv, bringing their personal worlds into a single space in the city of Sderot. In doing so, it speaks to a shared anxiety that, since October 7th, has expanded from a regional condition to a collective national reality, saturating every aspect of daily life. The exhibition is not merely a meditation on fear and its representations; it is a conceptual and artistic gesture within a wounded space, where image and context merge, and the external reverberates with the internal. The exhibition is arranged in three clusters. Lev-On and Klein engage with notions of interior and exterior, offering a temporary liminal space where their works respond to one another, intertwine, and merge into a visual collage. In the "home" space, a scene of absence unfolds: slippers and towels remain as traces of a body, alongside a snake’s shed skin. In the "outside" space, a neon sign transcribes a voicemail left at the yellow gate of a kibbutz, while opposite it, a frozen frame from Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" music video appears. A third wall gathers reflections on masculine games, where a child’s game of "tag" takes on the dynamics of hunter and prey. In this delicate seam, between the animal and the figure, the image and the viewer, the spectator is not merely an observer but is fully present. The space invites an exposed conversation about fear as an existential condition, and perhaps even views the animal not only as an enemy or symbol of terror, but as a vital force, an energy that may itself offer a way toward resilience. Limor Klein Tivoli (b. 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist with a B.Ed in Art Education from the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College. She lives and works in Moshav Yevul in the western Negev. Her work explores images of the body and landscape as expressions of shifting mental states, control and loss of control, and the tension between belonging and dislocation. Her mixed-media works often include layered patchworks and investigate image, representation, and space as sites of interpretation. Tamar Lev-On (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist, lecturer and architect based in Tel Aviv. Lev-On invents myths, characters and histories through various media, creating architectural environments that entwine memory, history and narrative with structure, embedding secrets and lies within them. She holds a B.Arch from Tel Aviv University (2004) and an MFA “Art and Space” from Kingston University, London (2007), both in distinction. Since 2013, she has lectured at the Faculty of Design at HIT, serves as chief curator at “Vitrina” gallery at Holon Institute of Technology, and is a member of P8 cooperative gallery in Tel Aviv.