Dvora Morag | Towards the Horizon, 2026

At the center of the painting, floating on the sea, is an overturned dining table. The image evokes memories of a family setting and social order, yet it highlights the destabilization and potential loss of domestic stability. The imagery stems from the story of the artist's family: her parents, Genia and Henryk Kowalski, arrived in Israel as Holocaust survivors after years as refugees. Following a period in a transit camp in Pardes Katz, they were offered a house in Jaffa that was classified as "abandoned property." Upon opening the door, they found a courtyard with a set table, plates, and household items—signs of a life cut short. The visceral aversion that welled up within them, following their own years as refugees, was sharp and intense. They returned the key and went back to the transit camp.

In the painting, the sea acts as a space connecting different realities—linking the family’s story of displacement with traces of the life once led in the Jaffa home. The table, an object signifying domesticity and order, becomes a marker of a moral and psychological boundary between belonging, memory, and refusal.