The exhibition presents paintings from different series created from the late 1980s to the present—including those titled keffiyeh, terrazzo, windows, thorns, flowers, and birds. Special emphasis is placed on the mountain paintings of recent years; also featured is a new site-specific installation. Tsibi Geva’s paintings are multilayered; even when their surfaces seem to be inhabited by specific images, they contain numerous additionallayers shaped by processes of revelation and concealment, figuration and abstraction. It is interesting to examine the way in which the question of painting coexists in Geva’s work along with cultural and political issues, and mainly how the one camouflages and conceals the other. By means of distortion and displacement, repetition and accumulation, Geva assimilates ostensibly given fields of action and meaning, generating liminal hybridizations which strive to open up new discursive channels. While his approach to the process of painting is essentially conceptual, the works themselves carry a surprisingly expressive charge, and the work process as a whole is based on the creation of a dialectic tension between opposites and a blending of different fields of discourse and action; a mixture forever striving to remain hybrid, ambiguous, multi-cultural, non-uniform. Tsibi Geva (b. 1951, Kibbutz Ein Shemer) has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad. He currently serves as head of the Art Department, the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College.